Roller Coaster Collision

[FRD714]

Another accident in the theme park world. I dont know exactly what happened but I know two trains collided. This happened in Europe I believe. Someone please get some more info if possible.

[iluvthebullforever]

How do you find information about that kind of stuff?

[FRD714]

20 Injured in Swedish Roller Coaster Crash
By Associated Press

Sat Jul 15, 6:22 AM

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Two roller coaster trains collided at Sweden's largest amusement park Saturday, injuring about 20 people, police said.

It was unclear what caused the accident at the Liseberg amusement park in Goteborg, Sweden's second largest city located on the country's southwestern coast.

"For some reason, two trains collided," police spokesman Staffan Sellberg said.

The park was closed after the accident, which happened shortly after noon. An investigation was under way, Sellberg said.

[iluvthebullforever]

Wow I wonder how that happened! I wonder what park that was.

[rct2wizard360]

Any idea what coaster it was?

Balder maybe?

[FRD714]

No idea, and I havnt seen it on any coaster forums yet.

[EagleFan344]

http://www.rcdb.com/id1061.htm

[FParker185]

if it really was Lisebergbanan it'd be a damn shame, looks like a grat coaster towards the top of my must do list (though honestly overall Finland is relatively low on my to do list due to other trips I'm planning)

[iluvthebullforever]

Any more info about it?

[FParker185]

Anti-rollback failure, train left the station started going up the lift when the lift stopped before the rollbacks engauged (schwarzkopfs tend to have them on the back car only) and it rolled back into the train in the station, at least this is what I'm hearing.

[FParker185]

an update, just saw it 5 mins after my last post

http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/ ... kel=900046