The ride had endured frequent breakdowns in the days leading up to the accident, and had several design and construction issues which contributed. Following a four year investigation, Ardent Leisure which owns Australia's biggest theme park, was fined $3.6 million (2 million) over the horrific deaths. It was later found that a water level sensor that could have prevented the accident would have cost less than $3,000. Dreamworld owner Ardent Leisure was fined a record A$3.6 million last September after pleading guilty to breaching workplace health and safety laws over the Thunder River Rapids ride tragedy. Tweet. The raft flipped over and the four adults were more than likely killed instantly as they were crushed by the machinery. The raft then went under the Eureka Mountain Mine Ride's station and headed back towards its own station. #14. A pair of children miraculously managed to survive the fatal incident at Dreamworld Australia, which was caused by the Thunder River Rapids ride malfunctioning. The operator of Australia's Dreamworld theme park has been charged with safety breaches over a water ride malfunction that killed four people in 2016. Key points: Dreamworld had a "systemic failure" in all safety aspects, coroner James McDougall ruled On October 25, 2016, four people, Kate Goodchild, Luke Dorsett, Roozbeh Araghi, and Cindy Low died while on the Thunder River Rapids Ride (via BBC). WebA Dreamworld worker who pulled bodies from the water during the Thunder River Rapids disaster is suing the theme parks owners. Oct 25, 2016. There were already problems with the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld on October 25, 2016, when the Goodchild, Dorsett and Low families arrived to experience one of the theme park's favourite rides. #14. Dreamworld owner Ardent Leisure was fined a record A$3.6 million last September after pleading guilty to breaching workplace health and safety laws over the Thunder River Rapids ride tragedy. That should have been enough to close down the ride until a proper maintenance check could be done. [35] A memorial garden for the victims was built near the site of the Thunder River Rapids Ride.[36]. WebOmaha, retrieve Valkyrie's body and get her back to Dreamworld. I've never fully understood what the actual cause of death was. The Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld has been closed following the deaths Two men and two women have been killed on a ride at a theme park on Australia's east coast. The 18-year-old's body was found days later, in a shallow grave. As the raft went up the conveyor belt, it collided three times with another raft that was stuck in low water (via The Guardian). Dreamworld visitor Lisa Walker said the Thunder River Rapids ride had broken down earlier in the day. Even the maintenance planner concluded that the ride was unsafe. Attractions ranges from thrill rides such as The Claw and Pandamonium to family and kids attractions such as the Dreamworld Express and Sky Voyager.Among the 40+ attractions includes the world's WebOvernight the popular Thunder River Rapids ride malfunctioned at the Dreamworld theme park in Australia, killing at least four people. The second raft was further moved by the conveyor into a vertical position and subsequently caused passengers to either fall out of the raft or become trapped in close proximity to the conveyor mechanism leading to fatal injuries for four passengers. (Supplied) 'Our heart aches daily' The families of the victims were invited by the coroner to address the court before the findings were handed down. Shine Lawyers is representing safety officers Shane Green, John Clark and Rebecca Ramsey and engineer Paul Burke who have all left Dreamworld and are all involved in ongoing counselling. This article exists as part of the online archive for HuffPost Australia, which closed in 2021. This article is about the river rapids at Dreamworld. A police officer who was exposed to four dead bodies after the Dreamworld Thunder River Rapids ride tragedy in 2016 is suing the theme parks parent company. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Facebook. [23][24], On 9 November, Ardent Leisure chief executive Deborah Thomas announced that the ride would be permanently closed, out of respect to the victims and their families, and that they would be invited to help create a memorial in its place. ", For more incredible stories from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here. Four former Dreamworld workers are suing the Gold Coast theme park, two years after they witnessed the horror of four people dying on the Thunder River Rapids ride. "I shudder when I think if there had been guests on the rafts," Tan wrote in the email. Then came another raft of six people about a minute later which crashed into it, before all 12 passengers found themselves being pulled upwards by the conveyor before the first raft stabilised on support rails. Home; News. The Thunder River Rapids Ride was a river rapid type water ride located in the Town of Gold Rush section of the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.[3]. Mr Buss was sacked in 2014 for his role in an incident when two rafts containing visitors collided on the ride's conveyor belt, but no one was injured. 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The bodies of four people who died at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast have been released to families for burial, Queensland police confirm. Mr Clark was rostered on as safety officer, stationed just 30 metres away from the entrance to the Thunder River Rapids ride on the day of the incident. "In all honesty if you had had the world's leading cardiothoracic surgeon, neurosurgeons, traumatic surgeons in that place at the exact time it happened and with all their equipment nothing would have changed the outcome," Mr Green said. The details of an earlier collision between empty rafts on a Dreamworld ride on which four people would die in 2016 are set to be revealed at an inquest into the fatal incident. A Dreamworld promotion for the ride describes people speeding up to 45km/h through turbulent rapids. Edit: Looks like two were crushed & the other two drowned after becoming stuck under the overturned raft if I'm not mistaken. [citation needed]. The company was fined $3.6 million (2 million), which the Magistrate said reflected the severity of Ardent's failure. Kate Goodchild was one of the four to die on the ride, Roozbeh Araghi died at the theme park on October 25 2016, Luke Dorsett fell from the raft to his death, The ride was shut down after the fatal incident, A makeshift floral tribute was created outside Dreamworld. The Most Interesting Articles, Mysteries and Discoveries. Monday is the fifth year anniversary of a devastating theme park tragedy which claimed the lives of Kate Goodchild, Luke Dorsett, Roozbeh Araghi and Cindy Low. In October 2017, police recommended that no criminal charges be laid against any person in relation to the deaths. Counsel assisting Ken Fleming QC asked Naumann if there had been a "total failure by everybody" to identify risks with the ride. According to a Queensland Coroner's report handed down in Brisbane, on Monday, they died from severe internal and external injuries. The three safety officers were part of Dreamworld's medical team and were called as soon as the ride flipped, crushing the four victims between the wooden conveyor belt and the raft. After four riders were killed on it in late October 2016, the ride was closed. The raft is dispatched and the riders travel back past the rides queue and into a cave. A police officer who was exposed to four dead bodies after the Dreamworld Thunder River Rapids ride tragedy in 2016 is suing the theme parks parent company. Dreamworld owner Ardent Leisure was fined a record A$3.6 million last September after pleading guilty to breaching workplace health and safety laws over the Thunder River Rapids ride tragedy. "Nobody should ever have to see what they were confronted with when they entered that trench," Ms Ibraheem said. "Steps were not that complex or burdensome and only mildly inconvenient and really were inexpensive," Magistrate Pamela Dowse said. Trio arrested during crackdown fall foul of national security law. Operators failed to shut down the conveyor belt before the raft containing the four victims collided with it, forcing both rafts to flip and the visitors to suffer fatal injuries in the ride's machinery. Thunder River Rapids Dreamworld . Former Dreamworld safety officer John Clark told the court he was aware of three patients and was performing resuscitation when he was made aware of a fourth person. The design and construction of Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids ride posed a "significant risk" to patrons' safety and the park's systems were "frighteningly unsophisticated", a coroner has found. To add to the systemic issues with the ride, state government regulators routinely signed off on audits of the Thunder River Rapids ride. The coroner said managers at Dreamworld had ignored previous incidents where there had been problems on the ride and not done anything to fix underlying causes. "Talk about staff having to pee at their rides, leaving their rides unattended and even being hospitalised with a kidney infection because of personals (sic) taking too long," he wrote. SYDNEY - Four people were killed Tuesday after a river rapids ride malfunctioned at a popular theme park on Australias east coast, officials said. 25 October 2016, 3:22 pm. 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