Serious Accident @ Disneys Animal Kingdom

[WadeJ]

I'll be looking for the official reports soon online but this site is very credible.  What is going on this year with all these strange accidents???

http://www.wdwinfo.com/news/article_001492.htm

[rjholla2003]

Wow.  That's pretty insane.  I hope no one died.

*edit*
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/custom/tourism/orl-bk-dizride052907,0,4415309.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

5 injured on Animal Kingdom ride at Disney
Beth Kassab
Sentinel Staff Writer

May 29, 2007, 2:16 PM EDT

Five Walt Disney World guests and an employee were transported to the hospital Tuesday morning after the Kali River Rapids ride at Animal Kingdom was evacuated.

One of the rides' sensors caused the flumes to stop as they were traveling up a steep incline, prompting an evacuation about 10:20 a.m., said Bo Jones, deputy fire chief of the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

A platform designed to help transfer guests from the ride to the exit stairs malfunctioned during the evacuation.

One Disney employee may have suffered a bone fracture and the five guests suffered other minor injuries such as bruises and neck and back pain, Jones said.

The injured people included three teenagers, one 21-year-old and two people in their 40s.

Disney spokeswoman Kim Prunty said the reason the ride stopped is being investigated along with how the evacuation platform malfunctioned.

Kali River Rapids remains closed for now, she said.

"Our primary concern is for those who are impacted by the incident," Prunty said. "We're trying to determine what happened."

[overlord]

What a freak accident...

[Dubya91]

Whoops

Such ashame to see an accident like this

[coastermom]

WOW things are already happening and the season has only really just begun for most families. What a shame I do hope that they figure out what happened.

[WadeJ]

Leave it to Disney to have the ride open already.  Apparantly, there was just a sensor failure that resulted in the ride shutting down.  Unfortunately, the newly installed evacuation platform is what failed here resulting in the injuries.  It looks like the CM was the most severely injured.  Hopefully they heal up quickly!

[rjholla2003]

That doesn't sound as bad as the earlier reports.  I was going to say earlier that it doesn't take much blood to get a ride's water to tun red.  Blood colors water pretty intensely at a pretty quick pace.  You can see this during "professional" wrestling when the wrestler starts to bleed.  Most times the referee slips they a razor, they stage some maneuver where they end up near a turnstile, and they give themselves a small incision.  Next thing you know, their face looks like a river of blood due to the sweat.