Roller Coaster Death

[Vandalia]

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I have heard of cases of avulsion of the internal mammary (thoracic) artery in MVA and other similar trauma, but a normal roller coaster ride is a new one.

Apparently there are reports of dissections in the carotid and aorta linked to roller coasters, but I haven't found a report of an avulsion. Not that I looked all that hard.

I knew there was a reason I hated those things - the amusement rides not the blood vessels. Well, maybe both on occasion.

Ohio woman found unconscious after Holiday World ride died from internal bleeding: Coroner

The Dubois County Coroner said that the Ohio woman who died after riding a rollercoaster at Holiday World died from "severe blood loss internally."

www.courierpress.com

 

[Apollyon]

I knew there was a reason I hated those things - the amusement rides not the blood vessels. Well, maybe both on occasion.

You know how I know you're old?

 

[Birdstrike]

Wow, that's weird. Must be where it comes off the subclavian and dives behind the first rib. As unusual an injury as that is, it doesn't surprise me. Any time I've gone on roller coasters in recent years, I feel like I'm shaken around violently enough that I'm half expecting a subdural bridging vein or some other key body part to be avulsed. It's seems like its a race to make those things more violent over the years.

I used to enjoy roller coasters, but I don't anymore. I think they call that "getting old."

 

[Vandalia]

You know how I know you're old?

Hmm ... how could that be?

Could it be the fact that I did a radiology rotation with Roentgen?

Could it be that I am typing this on an actual desktop computer with a real keyboard that has all the letters worn off?

I don't know.

I will have to put something on the old Victrola, lay down on the Chesterfield, and cogitate on it ...

 

[Apollyon]

Hmm ... how could that be?

Could it be the fact that I did a radiology rotation with Roentgen?

Could it be that I am typing this on an actual desktop computer with a real keyboard that has all the letters worn off?

I don't know.

I will have to put something on the old Victrola, lay down on the Chesterfield, and cogitate on it ...

Only if you have some peanut brittle and root beer with that!

 

[Cinclus]

Thirteen years ago, my best buddy and I rode every non-children's ride at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay - pretty much all roller coasters. Felt like I got a neck injury from one of them (I think it was called Kumba? - did some crazy corkscrew s***), but walked it off for a few minutes before hopping in another line. Ah, youth. I don't think I'd ride a single one of them now. But waiting in line to be in the first row of the Montu inverted coaster...that was worth it. Glad I did that before retiring from rides and becoming old and less physically resilient.

 

[Birdstrike]

Only if you have some peanut brittle and root beer with that!

Put it in the ice box.

 

[Vandalia]

Only if you have some peanut brittle and root beer with that!

You whippersnapper, the correct afternoon snack with root beer isn't peanut brittle is a couple of Nutter Butter's. The good kind - the ones that are shaped like peanuts. Not those awful other ones.

 

[thegenius]

Wow, that's weird. Must be where it comes off the subclavian and dives behind the first rib. As unusual an injury as that is, it doesn't surprise me. Any time I've gone on roller coasters in recent years, I feel like I'm shaken around violently enough that I'm half expecting a subdural bridging vein or some other key body part to be avulsed. It's seems like its a race to make those things more violent over the years.

I used to enjoy roller coasters, but I don't anymore. I think they call that "getting old."

Your an old fart. But you like good music!

 

[solitarius]

I always have anxiety that I'm going to get thrown off the roller coaster mid-air. That, and those cyclone rides where your body is inverted and your head is literally pointed downward.

 

[emergentmd]

I did the Lighting rod @ Dollywood recently and I left feeling some neck pain. The sudden turns and G foce (3.5) was alittle painful esp in the neck.

Some rides go over 5 Gs, I can see some neck injuries esp for oldies.

 

[Arcan57]

Hasn't been mentioned on this thread but wooden coasters are in a class of their own from a roughness standpoint, irrespective of their G's. I remember riding Son of the Beast at King's Island in residency and feeling like I was on the wrong end of a 3 v 1 sparring session.

 

[RustedFox]

Hasn't been mentioned on this thread but wooden coasters are in a class of their own from a roughness standpoint, irrespective of their G's. I remember riding Son of the Beast at King's Island in residency and feeling like I was on the wrong end of a 3 v 1 sparring session.

So much this.

 

[AMEHigh]

Hasn't been mentioned on this thread but wooden coasters are in a class of their own from a roughness standpoint, irrespective of their G's. I remember riding Son of the Beast at King's Island in residency and feeling like I was on the wrong end of a 3 v 1 sparring session.

Yes!
I haven’t rode on any roller coasters, likely since my 20s, and I can’t imagine going on a wooden one these days. Even in my teens and 20s the wooden ones beat up my body, can’t imagine what I’d feel like these days!

 

[Arcan57]

Yes!
I haven’t rode on any roller coasters, likely since my 20s, and I can’t imagine going on a wooden one these days. Even in my teens and 20s the wooden ones beat up my body, can’t imagine what I’d feel like these days!

I took my kids to 6 Flags GA and rode the Great American Scream Machine. I knew it didn’t have any inversions. I forgot it was wooden. FML.

 

[wendalltwolf]

You'll never catch me in the line for Kingda Ka

 

[Apollyon]

The only time a wood coaster got me was Elitch Gardens in Denver, because it was below freezing. My ears felt mangled. (I did ride several times, anyhow.)

But, I have yet to be bested by any coaster, anywhere. I've been to parks with folks my age, and people be wimpy!

 

[Birdstrike]

The Rusty Sledgehammer Twins

I read somewhere that wooden roller coasters are preferred among roller coaster aficionados since the wood has "more natural give" than metal and is supposed to give a "more gentle" ride. Shortly after that, I tried one. The thing looked like it was built in the Middle Ages and could have been used to torture peasants during the times where Kings would assassinate each other and merry their sisters. By the end of the ride it felt like a pair of bipolar, coke-binging bodybuilder twins had taken out their aggressions on my occipital bones with a pair of rusty sledgehammers. I traveled this path so you don't have to.

 

[Arcan57]

The Rusty Sledgehammer Twins

I read somewhere that wooden roller coasters are preferred among roller coaster aficionados since the wood has "more natural give" than metal and is supposed to give a "more gentle" ride.

They are preferred by aficionados. Rollercoaster aficionados are masochists and wooden roller coasters solve the problem of "how can we make traveling in a straight line painful" more effectively than their metal counterparts.