Texas theme park redesigns roller coaster that spawned dozens of personal injury lawsuits
The Rattler, a rollercoaster at the Fiesta Texas theme park in
The Rattler has an infamous history, a history that’s chockfull of personal injury lawsuits. Industry experts, such as Andrew Jakes, a certified safety consultant out of
By end of the first season of The Rattler’s being open to the public, park workers received hundreds of complaints of alleged injuries.
Randal Jackson, an attorney who has represented dozens of plaintiffs in their personal injury lawsuits against Fiesta
The majority of riders who later complained of injuries claimed they were hurt on the first drop of the coaster. The common complaints were of head, back and neck injuries. The first drop was initially a 166-foot fall. It has since been shortened to122 feet.
Michael Black, who is president of the contracting company that helped build the coaster defends the ride while admitting that the amount of force exerted by the ride was greater than the builders expected.
Says Black, "You got to look at it this way, a million people a year were riding that ride. (Fiesta
That small portion, however, has spelled big trouble for Fiesta
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