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On September 5, 2003, a 22-year-old man named Marcelo Torres died after suffering severe blunt-force trauma and extensive internal bleeding in a derailment of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster that also injured 10 other riders. [6] The cause of the accident was determined to be improper maintenance. [7]
On March 22, 2016, a death occurred at Disney's Contemporary Resort. The monorail's service was temporarily suspended while the Orange County Sheriff's Office investigated. Investigators announced that they believe that the person died by suicide. According to multiple sources, the person jumped to their death inside the central A-frame tower.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was designed by Imagineer Tony Baxter [3] and ride design engineer Bill Watkins. The concept came from Baxter's work on fellow Imagineer Marc Davis's concept for the Western River Expedition, a western-themed pavilion at the Magic Kingdom, designed to look like an enormous plateau and contain many rides, including a runaway mine train roller coaster.
On the morning hours of September 24, 1992, a male cashier in his 40s was stabbed to death by a foreign tourist inside a room reserved for the hotel's personnel for counting and depositing the cash. The suspect then stole all the money inside the safe before running out of the hotel. Although officials didn't immediately disclose the victim's ...
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on Hurricane Helene for Sunday, Sept. 29. For the latest news on the storm, view our live updates file for Monday, Sept. 30. ASHEVILLE, N.C. − More ...
Groundbreaking for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in 1979, which took place on the very tract of land reserved for WRE. When ground broke on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in January 1979, Marc Davis, desperate to save his Western River Expedition, offered a compromise: the roller coaster could be built as long as a scaled down WRE was built ...
The confirmed death toll in Buncombe County, North Carolina, where hard-hit Asheville is located, climbed to 40 on Monday. Helene's brutal toll: More than 100 dead; Biden to survey damage: Monday ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.