Victim in Ride Accident in Stable Condition

The Courier-Journal has the story.  It also notes some other new points:

• In a statement, the girl’s family “would like to state for the record that, despite claims in the media by representatives from Kentucky Kingdom Theme Park, at no time has any representative of the theme park been in touch with members of the family.” Six Flags’s spokeswoman, Carolyn McLean, responded that “Two representatives from Kentucky Kingdom traveled to the hospital immediately following the accident and were there for some time before the family requested that they leave.”
• The inspectors (as previously noted) have completed their on-site work but have still not made public any conclusions about what happened.
• Any further information about the girl’s condition besides it being “stable” has not been released.
• There’s another tower ride at Oklahoma City’s Frontier City that has been shut down while the park awaits a replacement cable, which is required to be replaced every two years.  The Frontier City ride is a Slingshot manufactured by Chance, while the Kentucky Kingdom ride is an Intamin ride.  The left mechanism looks similar, though I’m far from expert on that, except that it appears that the Chance ride has all one carriage, while the Intamin has multiple cars on the same tower, each presumably with their own set of cables.

–BC