The El Loco coaster at the Circus Circus Adventuredome is now
closed until further notice after a rider apparently fell from the coaster on Monday afternoon. The various local news reports all say the same general thing, without going into the real details about what happened. They all claim a woman fell from the coaster, and only state that she was injured, but not how serious, no do they say if the ride was in motion or not when the accident took place.
Various extra rumors have been floating around on social media, but there is no way to know now much of these extra details contain even the slightest bit of truth to them. One of the various rumors claim that the rider may have been an “amputee” of some kind, which could have limited the effectiveness of the lap-bar restraint system. That said, I do have serious doubts about this rumor, as there are also extensive rules about physical and body-part requirements needed in order to ride thrill rides for amputees that should have come into play.
Meanwhile there is another rumor claiming that the rider may have released her seat-belt and caused the incident, though generally the belts on coaster restraints are simply there as a ‘back-up’, as the primary restraint systems contain multiple redundancies, so that story doesn’t sound quite right either. So until we know the facts, best to not consider either of these rumors, or any others that pop up as the truth until reported otherwise.
I also find it strange that there is a lack of any major witness reports across social media. This just seems odd for an accident which took place inside an open theme park, as there should have been dozens of witnesses. The complete silence about this whole incident is just a little odd, with the only details coming from the park and Clark County, so take that for what you will.
