Look, folks, such accidents happen on real RRs fairly often. The cause is that track takes a beating, and it is simply not possible to spot every potential weak point until it breaks.
It might be possible that a sun kink was involved, but the simple fact is that no amount of maintenance can prevent every failure of the track. Deal with it. FACT. There is no conspiracy, no negligence, no scam, no PR, no sabotage: a weak point just failed. $#!t happens. Get over it, and go ride the train. Or don't: more room for me and mine.
Most of my comment was aimed at trying to understand the reasoning behind it being “sabatoge” as SDCfan88 said. I was not saying I believe it’s those things.
It’s okay to love a park and question why they have had several safety incidents the last couple of years. If you’re in a role that focuses on safety, “$#!t happens” is not an acceptable response to an incident. You dig in and find out exactly what went wrong and change your systems to address it and make sure it doesn’t happen again. When it come to the public, and reassuring them that you have addressed the problem that caused the incident being fully transparent is very helpful. Their comments notation last year and at the beginning of this year about what happened with the train was not fully transparent, that has left some lingering questions in the minds of many of the public if they did enough to address the cause of the problem. I don’t want to get bogged down on this, I’ll let you tell me why I am wrong and I’ll move on.
What I do want to talk about is that they were very specific about the car coming off by 2 inches. I’m curious how they are being so specific. I’m assuming it’s related to a safety device that kicked in at that tolerance, but I’d love to know more about what exactly it is and how it functions. From what they’ve said it seems like somehow it detects that the car is 2” off the rail and then triggers the coupler to release and that possibly triggers the brake system.
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