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2 seriously hurt on carnival ride The accident occurred at an annual festival in Hinckley on a ride called the Zipper. Two teenage girls fell from the ride, which rises about 25 feet into the air at its peak. Mary Lynn Smith, Star Tribune Two 14-year-old girls were seriously injured Saturday evening when they fell from an amusement park ride at the annual Corn & Clover Carnival in Hinckley. One girl was taken by air ambulance to St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth, where her condition wasn't being released, and the other girl was airlifted to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, where she was listed in critical condition. The girls were riding the Zipper, which features individual cars that each rotate along a boom-like frame that spins like a Ferris wheel. The ride along the frame isn't very fast, but when the cars get to the edge and change direction, a sudden burst of speed almost always flips the cars over. Details about the accident and the girls' names weren't available from the Pine County Sheriff's Office. The ride was immediately closed, but the two-day carnival remained open until its scheduled closing on Saturday night. Hinckley Mayor Tom Lymburner said he was told the girls were probably near the peak of the ride, which rises about 25 feet in the air, and were on their way back down. "It's at the point where the car spins and it pitched them out," Lymburner said. "It makes you kind of ill in your stomach," he said. "Right away you think about the families -- our hearts go out to them. Then you start thinking about your kids because they're riding those rides." Lymburner said. The carnival company, Magel Carnival Midways, has run the annual carnival for several years, Lymburner said. "There have been no problems," he said. "We never had anything like this happen." The company is cooperating with the Sheriff's Office to try to determine what happened, Lymburner said. In the late 1970s, the U.S. government warned against riding the Zipper after four deaths occurred when the doors opened and the riders fell out. The accidents reportedly were caused by a design flaw in the doors. Since then, each Zipper car is closed using a latch and a large pin. In May, 15 riders on Valleyfair's Wild Thing were injured when the last six cars broke away and lurched to a tilt as the roller coaster slowed to a stop. The Hinckley summer festival, which is in its 75th year, is a major draw for those in the area and includes carnival rides, food, the Miss Hinckley pageant and a two-hour parade. Hinckley, with a population of about 1,300 people, is about 80 miles north of the Twin Cities along Interstate Hwy. 35. "Right now, everyone's praying for the girls and their families," Lymburner said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I love how the reporter has to bring up the Valleyfair incident again. Got this from www.ride-extravaganza.com as shown on the picture

The supports came in on Wednesday morning and they are next door to the Breakers Express hotel. The workers were getting ready to unload them as I was checking out of the hotel. They are a light tan color.

Hey Robb! I do not see any pictures on page 1 of the Chessington update. It just says this page has not been updated yet. The other 3 work fine.

I love reading your trip reports. Even though you said there was not going to be any funny captions, you still deliver. My daughter is going to Spain next year on a school trip, so she will be interested in this report. I am glad you had a good time and enjoyed yourself.

^^Kumba The following article states the estops on Saturday did not have anything to do with this accident. Its in the last paragraph. http://www.startribune.com/462/story/454833.html

From this mornings local paper: Wild Thing's brakes to be scrutinized Valleyfair, the ride's manufacturer and outside engineers will try to find the cause of Sunday's accident that injured 15 riders. It is expected to take days. Pam Louwagie and Chao Xiong, Star Tribune Giant brake pads were slowing Valleyfair's Wild Thing roller coaster when the last of its six cars broke away and lurched to a tilt, sending 15 riders to the emergency room. Those brakes under the Shakopee amusement park's signature ride will be under scrutiny as the owner, the manufacturer and outside engineers try to figure out the cause of Sunday afternoon's accident. At the time of the accident, the ride "was well into the brakes, so probably that's going to be significant once we can get under there and see it," said Tip Harrison, director of Valleyfair's physical plant. Though he wouldn't speculate on what the investigation might reveal, Harrison doubted such an accident would have happened anywhere else during the ride. Valleyfair officials inspected parts of the ride Monday but did not physically touch anything. They were waiting for ride manufacturer officials to fly in from California. No government agency will investigate. Some states inspect amusement park rides, but Minnesota leaves that responsibility to the park owners and their insurance companies. The investigation is expected to take days, Harrison said. In the meantime, riders and witnesses were reliving their experience on Monday. Andrea Olecki, 14, of Eden Prairie was waiting in line to board the ride when she saw one of the roller coaster cars suddenly detach from the others. Olecki said she saw what looked like a latch that connected them fly into the air. "Everybody was just trying to run out of the line, get out of the way of the Wild Thing," said Olecki, who rode the roller coaster about nine times that day and experienced no problems. "I was scared." Sitting with his brother in the last car of the Wild Thing on Sunday, Jay Kephart, 9, of Milaca, Minn., felt a big jerk, hit his bottom teeth on the lap bar and tipped sideways, he said. He wiggled out of the restraints, stood up and saw wheels on the track. "Holy dang. It ripped itself apart real bad," he remembers thinking. His brother Mitch Kephart, 13, sat in the ride unconscious with a bloody nose. By the time park officials released the lap bars, he was awake. Neither suffered serious injuries, their mother said. Harrison said the rear wheels on the second-to-last car came off the track and broke away from the car. But he didn't know whether the derailment happened before or after the cars separated. Valleyfair would not release its safety record because its insurance company won't let it, Harrison said, but national amusement officials tout the safety of rides in general. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I did not post the whole article. The rest is about Chance Morgan and Steel Dragon. Here is the link for the whole story http://www.startribune.com/462/story/448960.html

My family and I were in line for Wild Thing when this happened. We were at the entrance to the station but did not see what happened. We heard the normal really loud clicking noise when the train comes into the brake run and then a loud metal screeching noise. They immediately emptied the station and lines. Earlier in the day we got in line to ride and they stopped the ride for about 15 minutes. I do not know why it was stopped though. This was only the second year my daughter (she is 16) would ride roller coasters and know she is questioning this. She did ride High Roller after this happened but she was really nervous.

And what a nice bulge it is.

I love the Raptor sticker on your car. I want one. Did you get it at Cedar Point?

Found it on Google. Searching to find out who Elissa White was and why she was an easter egg in Roller Coaster Tycoon. And also why she likes Intamin rides so much.

I am waiting for: Call of Duty 2 (Yes I know I am a brown noser). First Call of Duty was great and the expansion made it even better. The only negative was they were to short. I finished each one in about 10 hours. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Ages of Empires 3

I was wondering which ride queue line is your favorite and your worst? Not that having to stand in any line for a extended length of time is fun. My favorite is: Dueling Dragons - IOA Worst is: Disaster Transport - Cedar Point