Key Points
- Entertainment Weekly has learned new incident details after the Texas Tornado roller coaster appeared to derail mid-ride at Wonderland Amusement Park.
- Local authorities provided EW with reports outlining rescue efforts for 18 guests “stranded above the ground” on the double-looping steel coaster.
- One “occupant was evaluated by Amarillo Medical Services” on the scene.
Scary new incident details have been revealed after a Texas roller coaster appeared to derail mid-ride with 18 guests aboard, Entertainment Weekly has learned.
Incident summaries provided to EW by local authorities outline a timeline navigated by emergency responders, who arrived on the scene at Amarillo, Texas’ Wonderland Amusement Park, where the double-looping Texas Tornado roller coaster appeared to derail (as seen in images shared online) last weekend midway through its 2,050-foot-long course.
A summary provided to EW by a representative for local first responders explained that crews found upon arrival at the park Saturday night that the “wheel set failed and [the] coaster [was] unable to be moved” to evacuate riders, so manual rescues from the high point were performed.
Per the report, crews were instructed to “hydrate [riders] and share knowledge with other rescuers” about the incident, “as they were having difficulty releasing the manual lap-bar catch” for the uninjured people stuck inside the coaster vehicles…