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should teh california highway patrol take over ride accident invesgations from dosh?

tskbf2005 wrote:should teh california highway patrol take over ride accident invesgations from dosh?

Frankly, I think not. My brother works for a different police agency and those guys have their hands full with real crime. When accidents happen at the parks, they are just that - accidents. While certain attorneys would like the public to believe that there is probable cause of criminal negligence, that is not so. 95% of the time when people have been hurt or killed at Disneyland it's been because someone did something that they should not have done in the first place. Only rarely has it been because of mechanical failure, metal fatigue, etc. Why burden a police agency, including the Highway Patrol, with something outside of their jurisdiction?????

Yes. But only after semis pulling 40 foot trailers are running up and down Main Street.

Is this a question,or a real possibity? Sounds stupid to me.

I do not see how the Highway Patrol could deal with the different types of accidents and rides. The only way possible is if they had a department set aside only for inspecting rides and for investigating accidents. Since accidents could affect workers or be affected by workers then it would seem logical to keep it with OSHA. Poor training, overwork, or illness can cause an accident so how would the Highway Patrol deal with the worker related issues.

i will go back to my corner and leave the box for the professionals, now, stop poking me.

Seriously what are you smoking?

I consider the rides I work to be like working dangerous heavy industrial equipment. Makes me think a lot more about safety, and underneath the fiberglass covers, that's what they basically are, much more so than street vehicles with driver errors being the cause of troubles.