Accident on [Jetline at Gröna Lund] - one dead
Accident on [Jetline at Gröna Lund] - one dead
En allvarlig olycka har inträffat i berg- och dalbanan Jetline på Gröna Lund i Stockholm. En person är död. – En sådan här sak ska inte få hända, säger Annika Troselius, informationschef på Parks and resorts som driver nöjesparken. Alla som satt i berg- och dalbanan har evakuerats och insatsen är av...
Sad news coming out of Stockholm, looks like another classic Schwarzkopf design has derailed.
Article is in Swedish - here's a Google Translate link
Looks to be the same thing that happened in Mexico and Canada which, if I'm not mistaken, was the result of overlooking maintenance on the wheel bogies (though we can't jump to conclusions here). I hope everyone else survives and the families find comfort. This is tragic and shouldn't happen.
@bobkmertz @will6789 It definitely appears to have thrown a wheel assembly. The question is whether this failure is easily detectable, or is something more fundamental with the Schwarzkopf trains.
I wonder if this can be mitigated with careful checks, or whether parks need to be modifying or replacing the original trains on their Schwarzkopf rides.
This is tragic. Grona Lund strikes me as a park that looks after their rides, so this came as a real shock. Fingers crossed for the survivors.
At this point my gut is saying this may be a cross of neglect and a design that needs to be addressed. I don't think that it's a case where we should write off the classic trains but Gerstlauer (who I think holds the design assets but could also be Mauer) needs to review this and figure out a path forward. Many old rides have had similar scenarios that have gone on to be perfectly fine and safe rides (Chance Zippers come to mind).
We'll have to see how this all plays out. These are incredibly great coasters that I don't want to see people giving up on.