STOCKHOLM - One person was killed and nine injured, including children, in a roller coaster accident at the Grona Lund amusement park in the Swedish capital on Sunday, representatives of the park said. Eyewitnesses said the park’s Jetline roller coaster had partly...
The park spokesperson said 14 people were on the roller coaster when the front part partially derailed. It then stopped in the middle of the track with one carriage leaning out.
Jenny Lagerstedt, a journalist visiting the park with her family, told Swedish broadcaster SVT she was nearby and heard a metallic noise and noticed the track structure was shaking at the time of the accident.“My children were scared,” she added. Grona Lund is a popular attraction on the waterfront on one of Stockholm’s many islands, surrounded by several museums.
The steel-tracked Jetline roller coaster reaches a speed of up to 90 km/hr and a height of 30 metres, transporting more than one million visitors each year, the amusement park says on its website.“My thoughts are with those that were affected as well as their families and loved ones,” Liljestrand said in a statement to the TT news agency. - REUTERS
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