Coastercrush Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) Edited July 18, 2023 by Coastercrush 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KI FANATIC 37 Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Sounds like asimialr situation to what happened to Valravn a few years ago. Hope everyone is okay! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor.B03 Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Didn't this almost happen early last season with Orion where there almost was a collision at the station but the ride ops did stop it from happening in Orion's case. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoF96" Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 This is surprisingly common on new coaster installs. It never made the news, but lightning run was involved in a minor rear end collision in its opening year. The head of maintenance had concerns that the transfer track area was controlled only by drive tires. Chance disagreed. There was a day in its opening season where it started raining and both trains were on the track. The purple train rear ended the green train. Both trains had minor damage, the greens damage was limited to the electronic control box on the back but the purple one cracked the fiberglass front on the lead car leading to repairs being needed. You probably can’t see it anymore but when it happened you could tell the repair spot due to the mismatched purple color. Pinch brakes were installed afterwards and if the coaster had two trains on they would call it down in the rain rather than transfer it off like they do in many other parks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsus Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 5 hours ago, Taylor.B03 said: Didn't this almost happen early last season with Orion where there almost was a collision at the station but the ride ops did stop it from happening in Orion's case. General consensus was that there was nearly a crash but it was avoided. See: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor.B03 Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 22 minutes ago, jsus said: General consensus was that there was nearly a crash but it was avoided. See: That's what I said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofBaconator Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 Was this a true collision though? When I think of collision I think about what happened to Smiler. Was this a collision or a bump? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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