Top Thrill Dragster wheel accident

[twixmix0303]

Right, which is why our Vertical Velocity has new structural components as well.

[FParker185]

May be confused with the Absolutely Insane which had a tower crack off and fall to the ground in the off season, in which no one was hurt. Vortex shear fracture if I remember right, had to do with CP removing the cables in the off season which they werent supposed to do, but no one including S&S never told them that.

[RagingBullFan]

Yes, that would be the Vertigo collapse you are referring to. And it happened exactly as you said.

[[jonrev]]

I remember hearing about that during the offseason. How could that have happened?

[mschulz5]

They just told you how it happened.

[Aero737]

I'm chiming in late, but those wheels I heard weighed in excess of 500 (?) lbs? If it wasn't that number, it was a lot of weight. Lets say the train pulls 3 G's, that wheel now feels like 1500 lbs. They probably didn't use the same high quality material that you would normally use if the wheels were functionable on an auto, and one probably eventualy broke off and Cedar Point just said "Thats enough of that" and removed them all together.