Ouch....

Freak · Post by **Freak** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:21 pm

I was sitting around watching TV and as I flipped through, ABC just
reported that Big Thunder derailed....Not exactly a good thing is it?
Anyways, just letting everyone know...Disneyland has yet another
problem...get to have guests make up retarded stories why the train
derailed. Anyways, one guy was severly injured, and they've set up a
field hospital on Tom Sawyers Island.

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:54 pm

uh oh...

odd thing is that last week while stuck in those enourmous (budget cut)
lines at Fullerton College, I was telling some of my fellow students my
belief that there would one day be a big accident on Thunder. Not so
much because of a train that derails (was it loaded wrong - weight all
bunched up in a weird place???) but because of metal fatigue eating
away interior track. The steam effects...welders in there every
night...it's just a matter of time...

Freak · Post by **Freak** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:02 pm

So far there's no comment on what caused it. 10 people were injured
and then that one severly injured person was rushed to ER.

Freak · Post by **Freak** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:46 pm

Update-The severly injured rider has died.

SirWillow · Post by **SirWillow** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 3:59 pm

Apparently somehow the locamotive car on the train separated from the
rest of the train, and part of the train derailed. Not sure of to many other
details on it right now.

But Freak is correct, at this point there is one fatality (an adult male) and
10 injuries, including at least 3 children.

wheelieman · Post by **wheelieman** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:43 pm

You guys are probably seeing helicopter shots, being flooded with news. I
can't find a thing on it here! People get stuck on a lift and CNN is all over
it, people actually die and it's maybe relegated to the "Crawler"!

Dave in newsless Minnesota

tabacco · Post by **tabacco** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 5:55 pm

MousePlanet is keeping a breaking news page going:
http://www.mouseplanet.com/more/bigthunder_breaking.htm

KNBC has photos, as well:
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2459380/detail.html

cheshire · Post by **cheshire** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 10:35 pm

Does anyone know who the thunder crew was? :( This must be really
hard for them. I wonder if they will close all the Thunder Mts. until the
investigation is over.

mahaihai · Post by **mahaihai** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 11:48 pm

Just an update..Jay Razzulo has said that Thunder is closed indefinitely
along with Thunder Trail (Frontierland to Fantasyland). Encouraging news
though OSHA and Anaheim FD are still on scene and have allowed the
closed stores to reopen so things are returning to normal. Also it seems
that management park wide is being very good about this so those of
you who need ADO's get them now while there hot. From the accounts i
have heard it is bad though.

CujoSR · Post by **CujoSR** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:32 am

I have moved this to the front page. This is a tragic event but it also
makes you think about how much the park is in disrepair and needs
some serious overhauling, but at least space mountain is getting fixed.

Please take a moment to think about the victims of this accident and the
families.