News tagged with 'Water Parks and Slides'

A New York jury awarded $10 million Wednesday to the family of a 14-year-old boy who died during a school field trip to a water park in Pennsylvania. Daniel Maracallo drowned in the wave pool at Allentown's Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom. Park security guards found the teenager in the attraction hours after fellow

WaterWorld USA officially reopened today, two weeks after a waterslide collapsed, killing 1 and injuring 32. The accident occurred when high school students, on their senior class trip, tried to set a school record for the most people on the slide at the same time. Tragically, the attraction buckled and fell nearly 40

Investigators hired by the owner of the Riverside Amusement Park have concluded that an accident which injured eight park patrons was the result of a bizarre coincidence. Attorneys representing those injured question the impartiality of the investigation. Park officials determined that the raft overturned about

A safety expert determined that several people riding a waterslide at the same time caused the California attraction to collapse, injuring thirty-two park patrons and killing one. WaterWorld USA hired the safety expert to investigate the accident. As of yet, no engineering defects in the structure have been identified