lady ulrike wrote:Sorry, I have to dispute this one, I know someone who worked the attraction when this happened and the kid was found between the two attached cars, not to the side of the car where it was plausible that he slipped out, but right smack in the middle of the two connected cars.
The kid was upset when the car was dispatched and the best that can be figured out is that one parent tried to pass the child to the parent in the other car. This comes from a very reliable eyewitness.
I haven't been on Roger Rabbit in quite some time, but I remember being able to rotate those cars. So in theory the door opening could have been to the side between the two joined cars. Am I wrong?
I didn't really care who was at fault in that accident, what irked me the most about it was that with all the bad publicity DLR got in the aftermath, they told the media that all emergency calls would start going to 911. But what they didn't tell the media was that CMs calling 911 would still be connected to the same internal emergency response system that the old 4204 number connected us to. I suppose having 911 available helped us remember where to call in an emergency, but I think the real change happened a year later when DLR started paying to have AFD paramedics on site 24/7 and bought emergency response vehicles for them to use on property.
Regardless, I still feel much safer on any Disney ride/attraction than at fair or carnival rides. Lots of my wife's family worked at Magic Mountain and they could tell you it's gone down the tubes since Six Flags took over. OTOH SF sold its park near Seattle last year and it's doing a bit better now since the new owners market it differently. Around the time they sold it I read that SF became a victim of its own aggressive growth-by-acquisition business plan and too many of the parks they acquired became liabilities.
