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Park News - (4/16/04) BBC News reports that a 16 year old girl has died after somehow falling out of Hydro, an Intamin River Plunge attraction, one of only two such rides in the world. She was rushed to a local hospital by helicopter in critical condition but died later that evening. No details about just how the girl came out of the boat at the top of the attraction is known at this time, but we can

CitationGirl, 16, dies after 100-foot fall from Intamin's 'Hydro' river plunge ride
(Thursday, April 15, 2004) - At Oakwood theme park in Pembrokeshire, England, a 16-year-old girl suffered fatal injuries after falling 100 feet from the top of a river plunge ride called Hydro. Police reports indicate that the girl landed in the water pool underneath the ride's track. She was rushed via helicopter to a hospital, where she died. A ten-year-old boy was also injured in the accident. He was treated for minor head injuries and released.
Police are seeking out witnesses and have begun an investigation. The Health and Safety Executive have also begun an investigation. The ride has been shut down.

Hydro, one of the world's tallest and steepest water rides, is described by its manufacturer as a "water free-fall attraction." Oakwood calls it "Europe's fastest and wettest" water coaster. It consists of 24-passenger boats which are lifted to the top of a 121-foot-tall chute and then plunge almost vertical at an 85-degree angle into a one million-gallon pool of water, producing a 45-foot tall splash wave -- one of the biggest of any of the world's water rides. Hydro opened in June 2002.

The park's website states, "Due to an incident, Hydro will be closed until further notice."

The ride is manufactured by Intamin AG of Switzerland -- the same manufacturer of a nearly identical river plunge ride operating at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Vista, California from which a 40-year-old woman fell to her death in September 2001. Intamin says that the victim in the California accident was too large for the ride's safety restraints and that the park's ride attendants should not have allowed her to ride. California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health investigated the September 2001 accident, and concluded that the ride's safety restraint system was flawed.

"While the possibility cannot be excluded that more optimal placement or adjustment of the seat belt and/or lap bar could have been achieved so as to have prevented the accident or mitigated its outcome, the design of the restraint system was clearly not adequate to protect against the type of event that resulted in the deceased's separation from her seat."

OSHA called for the ride's restraint system to be modified so that riders of all body sizes would be adequately secured. Knott's Berry Farm worked with Intamin to implement OSHA's recommendations.

It is not yet known whether the victim's size was a factor in today's Hydro fatality.

Effectivement elle serais tombée d'une hauteur de 30 metres dans l'eau

En 2001 une femme de 40 ans est morte dans les memes circonstances

Triste Bilan pour ces 2 uniques attractions

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c''est une impression ou ces derniers 12 mois, il y a une recrudescence d'accidents mortels dans les parcs ?

C'est triste il faut dire que la descente est raide et sans ceinture ou autre moyens de protection !

Ils sont pas attaché les visiteurs pour cette attraction???  

Bien sur que si !!!  

il y avait je crois a l'origine une sorte de lap bar mais apres l'accident de KBF, des ceinture ont été rajoutées sur ce dernier ainsi que sur les modèle suivants : cad pour le moment seul celui de Oakwood.
D'ailleur, il me semble avoir vu une photo des ceinture dans un First Drop et les passagé étaient vraiment arnaché ! ce n'était pas juste une ceinture ventrale

Non, Hydro n'a pas été equiper de harnais comme le modéle de Knott's Berry Farm ce qui parait bien étrange comme attitude de la part d'Intamin.