Yikes: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sandspit-amusement-park-ride-flings-teenager-into-collision-1.3193547

 

Double Yikes: The owner's response.

It sounds like they are implying without coming right out and saying it, that the young woman unbuckled her own seatbelt during the ride.

I don't think it is likely she had, but it frightens me to think a ride with such forces would ever depend solely on a seatbelt to restrain riders from falling out. I can imagine many ways in which a typical seatbelt could be accidentally released when your body and limbs are flailing around.

One does wonder how certain coasters have operated for 40 years with just seatbelts then.

And some of them used to operate with nothing at all.

Wow she was really lucky. That could have ended much worse. 

One does wonder how certain coasters have operated for 40 years with just seatbelts then.

And some of them used to operate with nothing at all.

I never saw a seat belt on a wooden coaster until they appeared at Cedar Point. The first year, children were required to use them. For adults, use was optional. I believe this was the late Eighties.

I never used a redundant seatbelt on a coaster until I ventured outside of Lagoon. Their coasters only use one restraint, and only one has seatbelts. That's the Jet Star 2, and that's its only restraint. I thought Lagoon's way of going about it was the standard operation for far too long.

 

And you might say the seatbelt on the Jet Star is redundant too. See Zambezi Zinger at Worlds of Fun.

A roller coaster has less wild force changes than the ride described. A person might be able to purposefully get out of a coaster if they undid their seatbelt, but the type that only have belts (or buzzbars for that matter) don't typically have the types of forces that would actually throw someone involuntarily from it.

Modern ones, yes. A good John Miller ride could throw a rider dozens of feet if not restrained. Strong negative g's not seen on modern rides--except maybe El Toro and the INTAMIN Supermen and sich.

I rode Screechin Eagle (defunct) no seatbelt and only buzzbar.....just as we went over the hill......weeeeee the buzzbar unlocked. We were on our feet over every hill...and very lucky...the only thing holding us in was our death grips.

Here's a very brief video of the ride for those wondering what exactly it does. I found 4 videos of it on YouTube, but this is the only one not shot by someone while actually on the ride...

 

http://www.ride-extravaganza.com/intermediate/rok-n-rol/

A very short history of the type of ride.

Last time I rode one of those, I fell out twice.  Got back in both times while it was moving too.  Of course this was back in the eighties, when kids took there lumps without helmets and participation trophies.

And back when kids turned into adults that don't know they posted there instead of their. Why can't I edit this on my phone man? And why do phones hinder writing? It's insane. Smart phones that interfere with the English language because 'they' know best. Uh.

Here's a very brief video of the ride for those wondering what exactly it does. I found 4 videos of it on YouTube, but this is the only one not shot by someone while actually on the ride...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1WekptvxEs

Thanks! I always have to look up these weirdly named rides.

Existential, we were little monsters back then, I don't know how we survived. We bounced back quick.