The Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach was stopped for safety reasons as thrill-seekers enjoyed the 235ft (71m) high attraction.
Passengers were seen being helped down the rollercoaster’s steep tracks in an image captured from a nearby hotel as the drama unfolded on Tuesday.
A Blackpool Pleasure Beach spokeswoman confirmed the ride was stopped “due to sudden changes in weather conditions”.
She continued: “Guests on the ride were reassured and escorted from the ride by Blackpool Pleasure Beach staff. Due to high gusts of wind the Big One rollercoaster closed for the remainder of the day.”
If I was fit and young enough to go for adventure sports then hey ho yes. Trained by qualified people, a bit different to a dodgy fairground ride perhaps
I took a static line skydiving course some years back at Headcorn Aerodrome…I felt I was in safe hands
A woman has described the ‘horrendous’ moment that she had to walk down from a rollercoaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach after it stopped mid-ride.
Harriet Molyneux, from Wigan, and her friend Lydia Royale were riding the Big One - the UK’s tallest rollercoaster - at the theme park on Tuesday (April 11) when the carriage stopped on the lift hill. Staff had stopped the iconic ride due to a ‘sudden change in weather conditions’.
Harriet said people ‘screamed and cried’ when the rollercoaster ground to a halt. She said passengers waited around 10 minutes before staff helped walk them down to safety.
“He just said we have to get you off. Someone was crying. People were saying ‘we don’t want to get off’, it was horrendous. My friend said ‘I can’t breath’ she was panicking. It was really high, our hands were like ice it was windy and raining. He kept saying ‘it’s ok don’t look down’ but you had to look down to see where you were going.”
Horrifying! But you might argue that it could have been worse if the whole thing blew off the track. That would have put the people on the ride and the people on the ground at risk.
How many jumps did you do?
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