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Yea, but are they safe?
Submitted By: ThmPrkCrtc on 8/14/2001 9:10:00 AM
WebMD is asking the question are roller coasters safe (isnt everyone these days though) :rolleyes:

Gary Slade, publisher and editor in chief of Amusement Today, a monthly trade newspaper for the amusement and water park industry, says the problem is overblown.

"I think its been a relatively quiet, normal year for the industry," he tells WebMD. "When you look at the total number of rides across the nation, at the total number of parks, total number of visitors to these parks, its mind-boggling how many people are riding rides and how safe they are. The numbers of people getting injured are far less than numbers getting killed on our nations highways, train derailments, plane accidents, and boating accidents."

Comments:

EBOB8 on 8/14/2001 2:05:00 PM said:
Why are coasters getting so much negative publisity these days. I realize they are getting advancing technology allowing bigger and faster rides. However, the advancing technology allows for safer rides. So I really feel rides are safer than they used to be.
 
DmctNY8 on 8/17/2001 1:55:00 PM said:
I fell people are way to paniced about coaster safty. It has become a proven fact that it is more dangerous riding in a car to a theme park than your day at the park.
 
XtremeFan8 on 8/18/2001 4:54:00 PM said:
roller coasters of course have had accidents- but so have planes and cars. every year new technology comes out for coasters and planes and cars to make it safer.
 
XtremeFan8 on 8/18/2001 5:16:00 PM said:
coasters have to have many tests in order to make the irde ruin correctly.
 
XtremeFan8 on 8/18/2001 5:18:00 PM said:
coasters have to have many tests in order to make the ride run correctly.
 
EBOB8 on 8/19/2001 2:32:00 AM said:
thats very true. people are paranoid about coasters.
 
speedxx1 on 8/23/2001 4:24:00 PM said:
You only live once so who cares what happens id rather die having fun than die being bord
 
EBOB8 on 8/24/2001 4:46:00 PM said:
If you don't live a fun life, then why live at all.
 
wthrman27 on 8/25/2001 10:16:00 AM said:
i think roller coasters are very safe. when they do crash(which is not very often), the media gets a hold of the story and blows it out of proportion and scares the people.
 
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