Carnival ride accident sends kids plummeting to the ground
This is why those home-town carnival rides makes me so incredibly nervous — bohemian gypsies, Jack Daniels and parts pieced and rigged together from from junk yard parts and Home Depot wires — uh, no thanks.
“It dropped down and dragged the kids around in circles,” Phillip Coulson, whose godson was on the ride, told KTXL-TV in Sacramento, about 80 miles southeast of the annual fair. “Two girls got hurt and my godson, he just scraped his knees.”
Some of the victims were thrown through the air as chains snapped, and three riders were airlifted to hospitals in Modesto and Sacramento.
Sean Ranney, who had exited the ride right before it crashed, described the scene to the Union Democrat.
“We just saw people bouncing off the ground and hitting the ride,” he said. “It happened three times. It bounced, bounced and bounced, then people started hitting the ground.”
Related.Another witness, Cassidy Dean, 18, said in the Union Democrat story that she had been standing at the base of the ride when it went out of control.
“I just saw all these little kids smashed into the ground.”
Click here to read the Union Democrat story.
Investigators were trying to determine if the accident was caused by mechanical or human error, and workers reportedly were being tested to determine if drugs may have played a role, KTXL-TV reported.
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