Video: Riders hang vertically for nearly 40 minutes after rollercoaster gets stuck in UK
Screengrab of the viral video in which rollercoaster can be seen halted due to malfunction.
A fun-filled rollercoaster ride turned into a nightmare for eight riders, which included an 8-year-old girl, after they were stuck at the top of a 72-foot-high rollercoaster which was stalled at an amusement park in United Kindom.
As per SkyNews, the unfortunate incident took place at the Adventure Island theme park in Southend, Essex on Friday (July 28). The riders were stranded on the ride and were hanging vertically for around 40 minutes before the officials rescued them and brought them back to the ground.
A video of the riders stranded at a 90-degree angle and facing skywards at the Rage attraction at the Adventure Island theme park is going viral on social media platforms. The riders were stranded at the ride's highest point, which has been advertised as the "biggest and best" rollercoaster of the Adventure Island, with "loops, twists, and flat-out speeds".
40 minutes of horror
As reported by Sky News, officials started a rescue operation and the people aboard were evacuated from the ride and brought back to the ground within 40 minutes.
"Just after 2 pm today, a carriage on Rage stopped on the lift," said Marc Miller, managing director of the Stockvale Group – which has been running Adventure Island.
"Our highly trained team immediately initiated our ride evacuation plan, which has been certified by the Health and Safety Executives and Essex Fire and Rescue. All passengers were returned to the ground, safe and sound and reunited with their families within 40 minutes," Miller stated.
People harnessed and brought down
Speaking about the incident, an eyewitnesssaid that the people on board the ride were harnessed and saved from the frightening predicament at the amusement park.
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According to the New York Post, one mother, who had visited the amusement park with her six-year-old daughter, while talking about the situation said that the rollercoaster was stuck during its ascent just before 2 pm local time.
"It was all quite calm to be fair, the park seemed to handle it really, really well," said the woman. "They were reassuring them, there was no screaming or mass hysteria, though obviously there was a large crowd of people around and lots of people there," she stated.
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