Woman Rushed To Hospital Unconcious After Riding Disney Rollercoaster

[wvdisneyfamily]

How is the woman? Does anyone know if she is okay?

 

[mikeymouse]

My BP is borderline high and I ride M:S. While on my first ride, looking to the side made me want to pass out. Only ever felt slightly dizzy/nauseous after that. If I die, I would want it to be at WDW anyway.

 

[Thrill Seeker]

It's probably going to remain closed until the investigation is completed. I hope she's ok.

 

[danv3]

Not a whole lot of new info here: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/the-daily-disney/os-space-mountain-accident-20110521,0,2021396.story

Or here: http://www.wftv.com/news/27976888/detail.html

 

[JEANYLASER]

thanks for the info!

 

[Poofiesdream]

Prayers are with this women and her family.

 

[Thrill Seeker]

Reading that article has led me to this conclusion: people need to consider their health problems before riding a thrill ride. Nobody seems to think about it. This is the result.

 

[COProgressFan]

Reading that article has led me to this conclusion: people need to consider their health problems before riding a thrill ride. Nobody seems to think about it. This is the result.

True, but very often people don't even know they have these conditions (or don't know the severity of them) until it's too late...

 

[mickeyfan785]

If I die, I would want it to be at WDW anyway.

Couldn't agree with you more! What better way to die than the happiest place on earth!

 

[DisneyHeather]

Latest article on Orlando Sentinel says that Space Mountain is back open.

Prayers to this woman that everything is ok.

 

[mickeysaver]

Space Mountain has not reopened since this morning and will probably not resume operations tonight. FastPass was disabled as soon as it went down.

Yeah, we got there around noon and by the time we got over to Tomorrowland, the ride had been shut down. We left just before 9 PM and it was still down. The crowds seemed to be extra thick yesterday for some reason. It was less crowded the last time we went on a Saturday during Spring Break season. :shrug:

My prayers go out to the lady and her family. I hope she will be ok.

 

[Korfar]

Disney will be fine. I'm sure they have some crazy liability insurance for this kind of thing. Honestly I'm more worried about the woman and her family than the wealthy corporation.

A lawsuit would be baseless anyway. Disney puts up plenty of warning signs about heart conditions, etc. It's a well known fact that grief can turn to anger, so I understand why these lawsuits happen. (honestly it's the ambulance chasing lawyers who prey on this that I can't stand)

My career is in commercial insurance. I can tell you chances are no insurer would give Disney parks a liability policy. Also it would be cost prohibitive to Disney to purchase one. They would spend more per year in premium if they didn't have a fatality or permenant disability claim. As someone else stated they are big enough that they self insure

 

[aurorawest]

I wonder how many people rushed to the TTA Peoplemover to get pictures of Space Mountain with the lights on...

Ha, me. Though I'd have done the TTA next anyway. I was actually in the load area for SM when this happened, though all we knew at the time was that they'd cut the power to Alpha because of some issue.

I hope the woman's all right!

 

[Todd L]

The bad thing about this is if she does make it she will probably blame Disney and the ride and sue. If she doesn't make it the family will probably blame Disney and the ride and sue. Either way Disney gets screwed.

I think thats a huge part of the reason they post all the "do not ride if you have Heart, back issues" signs everywhere..It will at least lessen Disney's Liability in these situations. Its sad reguardless that someone that young died but there must have been some pre-existing circumstance.

 

[Todd L]

True, but very often people don't even know they have these conditions (or don't know the severity of them) until it's too late...

My 70 year old father was on vacation at Disney in march...He is in great shape and takes good care of himself.
He went on every ride multiple times and on the flight home he began to feel ill.

We rushed him to the emergency room the next day only to find out that he had an aneurysm. Never any signs of an issue.

So you are right on with that statement.

 

[WereMagicLives]

95% sure it wasnt anything to do with the ride. its all over the ride people with epielpcy and thinngs such as that shuldnt ride some people chose to ignore it. deff sounds like a heath issue

 

[jem3772]

The bad thing about this is if she does make it she will probably blame Disney and the ride and sue. If she doesn't make it the family will probably blame Disney and the ride and sue. Either way Disney gets screwed.

So thats the only "bad thing" you get from this tragedy , how sad!!!

 

[WondersOfLife]

95% sure it wasnt anything to do with the ride. its all over the ride people with epielpcy and thinngs such as that shuldnt ride some people chose to ignore it. deff sounds like a heath issue

...and the good ol' "Please keep your hands, arms, and feet inside the vehicle at all times" speech

 

[Victor Kelly]

Sad but stuff happens. And it can happen to any of us. Unless something happened to me at a Disney park that was total gross negligence I could not bring myself to sue them.and that goes for anywhere else.

I have played paintball and airsoft for over 20 years. I have been hurt several times but realized everytime I got hurt it was usually my fault or just happenstance that I did get hurt. Nobody ever got sued.

Stuff......................happens.

 

[PlaneJane]

So thats the only "bad thing" you get from this tragedy , how sad!!!

Don't dare twist this on me. I hope she recovers, but the way people are sue happy these days doesn't make the situation any easier for all of us. Any actions that takes place after the fact will surely affect both Disney and anyone that vacations there.