r/news • u/Bloated_Hamster • 7h ago

Visitor dies after accident on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia

https://www.waff.com/2026/10/12/visitor-dies-after-accident-goliath-six-flags-over-georgia/
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u/2kids3kats 6h ago

I worked security for Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey in ‘87 or ‘88, and a young woman did fall out and die after her seatbelt failed on one of rides. It was so awful.

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u/clover-the-clever 6h ago

Lightning Loops or Rolling Thunder?

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u/2kids3kats 6h ago

It was the loops. What I really remember was that she was aware she wasn’t buckled in, and looked at her boyfriend who was seated next to her and said “oh god, Rick…” before she fell. Horrible.

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u/BotF_Latyon 6h ago

Like that kid who rode that Orlando free fall ride and knew the entire way up that he was going to die when it dropped and he kept saying to tell his grandma he loves her

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u/DirtAndSurf 5h ago

Omg, I've never heard of that story until now, so thanks, fuck off, I hate you, just kidding. How absolutely horrifying and what a brave terrified sweet kid to keep saying that. Don't tell me anything else now!

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u/DirtAndSurf 6h ago

Oh my God. I'm so sorry you had to see that and know what you know about it. And her poor family and boyfriend.

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u/StarFaerie 2h ago

Her name was Karen Brown. She was 19. It happened on 17 June 1987.

So sorry you had to be there for that. It must have been horrible.

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u/AnotherLie 6h ago

Good thing it wasn't Class Action Park, at least.

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u/MotherStatement1109 6h ago

I know like 9 victims of that park lmao I was lucky to never sustain anything worse than a wicked sunburn though

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u/jaytrade21 5h ago edited 5h ago

My camp would take us and every time someone got hurt pretty bad from our group. Most of the time it was burns from falling out of the alpine slide. I almost drowned twice in the infamous wave pool (because I was a dumb kid and went back in every time they took us)

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u/MotherStatement1109 5h ago

Lmaooo I was ok in the wave pool but I know two people who almost drowned on Cannonball Falls

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u/icyii 4h ago

I also almost drowned in a wave pool. Luckily my mom saw and sent my dad in to save me. Never went into a wave pool again

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u/Harry_Smutter 1h ago

Same. That park was a frequent location for the camp I used to attend. Horrifying listening to everything that happened there...

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u/three-sense 5h ago

Low key I would've liked to have visited that place in the late 80s, i was on the other coast though