Swedish theme park ride collapses

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

Officials said around 20 people were seriously hurt in the accident, which happened at the Liseberg theme park. Several people were thrown out of the swinging Rainbow ride in Tuesday evening's accident, police said.

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a couple pics here.

http://www.rideaccidents.com/

Sad accident.

How does this stuff happen? You'd think it was on a strong foundation.

I would recommend against linking to that site in the first comment there.

Why? That site is a specific news site, which simply repeats news items with far less editorial content than CoasterBuzz News. It's just that the news collected on that site is limited to news stories about ride accidents. It's not like, say, linking to Mr. Herrera's site...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

It really looks like the driveshaft broke. As far as I remember the HUSS Rainbow has two parallel driveshafts which keep the gondola in an upright position. One of the two acts as a redundancy.
Very strange and frightening accident! I think it is the first of its kind.

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