Shaoyang County, Hunan Province, an amusement park vocal high fall to the ground accident 16 tourists were injured (Photo source: video screenshot)
February 13, Shaoyang County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province, an amusement park amusement facilities accident, a number of people were thrown to the ground on the high-speed rotating air chair, resulting in 16 people were injured, including three people seriously injured, the relevant facilities have been closed.
Comprehensive mainland media reports, at 3:40 p.m. on February 13, tourists in Shaoyang County Luzikou tourist area of the amusement park ride flying chairs, the rope suddenly broke and fell from a height, resulting in passengers with flying chairs fall injured; another flying chair hit the surrounding tourists. A total of 16 people were injured, including three people in serious condition, and another 13 people were hospitalized or kept under observation.
A tourist riding the flying car, shooting video just recorded the process of the incident. The Internet video shows that the flying chair in a rapid rotation, the camera suddenly spinning sky, the picture disappeared. There are a number of tourists lined up at the scene, witnessed the entire incident, a number of injured lying on the ground, waiting for rescue.
Another witness to the “New Beijing News” that he and his friends in the afternoon of the 13th queue on the flying chair, just lost to himself, there is only one empty seat, so the witness first let the people behind the ride, when he had heard the machine failure warning, but did not see anyone stop the ride.
The eyewitness said, “It was going up slowly and slowly when it got to half the distance, and then the alarm sounded. Then the speed is getting faster and faster, and it spins all the way down.” When the flying chair at high speed, the chair’s chain broke, a number of people on it fell directly from the air to the ground, but also injured the surrounding tourists, “luckily ran fast, otherwise it must have been smashed.”
The cause of the accident is still unclear. As of now, the playground is temporarily closed.
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