Drop Tower Rides Shut Down Across the Country
I wouldn’t normally bring attention to this news story, but it’s relevant since I was just at King’s Dominion last weekend. A horrific story just came out a couple days ago about a 13 year-old girl who had her feet cut off when she rode the Superman: Tower of Power in Kentucky. This happened just a few days after I had written about a similar ride being one of my favorites when we went to King’s Dominion. In response, amusement parks around the country, including King’s Dominion in Doswell, VA, are shutting down drop tower rides. I’m not 100% sure how the ride works, but from this picture that I took, it doesn’t look like the one at King’s Dominion would have any cords involved to cause this sort of injury. I hope the amusement park industry verifies that all their rides are safe, because according to Theme Park Insider’s injury report list, incidents seem to happen pretty often.
