A brand new Six Flags Magic Mountain curler coaster that’s been declared one of the vital intense on the earth has been closed for greater than a month with no indication of when it’ll open once more after a rider suffered a severe harm.
The Valencia theme park shut the acclaimed X2 – billed because the world’s first 4th-dimension curler coaster – on July fifth, after the Los Angeles County Fireplace Division responded to a report a rider was discovered unconscious, KTLA first reported.
The California Division of Occupational Security and Heath, or Cal/OSHA, has additionally opened an inspection into the incident on the journey, however refused to substantiate particulars as a result of the investigation was ”ongoing.”
The Six Flags Magic Mountain journey has been closed to company ever since.
In a press release, Six Flags Magic Mountain confirmed X2 was presently not working.
“We hope to get the journey again up as quickly as attainable,” a spokesperson informed the California Submit.
“We would not have an estimated time of when X2 might be reopening.”
The park selected not to answer query about why the journey closed, or whether or not it was present process security or upkeep checks.
It additionally has not publicly commented on the incident that occurred previous to the journey’s closure, which left the patron in an unknown situation.
Six Flags promotes X2 as “a ceremony of passage for the last word daredevil”, which can depart “even essentially the most hardened thrill seeker screaming.”
It was formally opened as X in 2002, earlier than it was revamped and rethemed as X2 six years later.
“With 360 levels rotating seats and head-first, face down drops, X2 is downright scary,” the park’s web site states.
The journey reaches speeds of 76 miles per hour as adrenaline junkies dive, flip and twist their manner throughout the 3610ft observe.
“To make issues even higher, your 360 levels seat extends on wings far off the observe, so your physique might be flipping across the complete time,” the journey’s description reads.
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“Fairly merely, you’ll be spun into one other dimension.”
The journey’s closure comes as a Backyard Grove household makes an attempt to hunt compensation from the park in a jury trial slated to start in September.
The household has alleged their son, Christopher Hawley, died after he suffered a catastrophic subdural hematoma after occurring the journey in June 2022.
The 22-year-old was on the curler coaster together with his youthful brother and cousin when it “all of a sudden, abruptly and violently jolted to a halt”, in keeping with the lawsuit.
Christopher complained that his head harm earlier than kneeling down and shedding consciousness, the household alleged.
He was taken to Valencia’s Henry Mayo Newhall hospital, however died the following day.
Six Flags Magic Mountain is a 260-acre theme park that’s dwelling to lots of the tallest, quickest, steepest coasters and thrilling sights on the earth.
