The fatal accident at Tivoliet Friheden in the Danish city of Aarhus has shaken many. And many are wondering how the accident could have happened. The case is still under investigation. Read also: 14-year-old dies after accident at amusement park in Aarhus Police were notified of the accident that happened on the roller coaster Cobra just before 1 pm on Thursday. About two hours later, a 14-year-old girl was confirmed dead. Friday afternoon comes the confirmation that the installation will never be used again. The director of the amusement park, Henrik Ragborg Olsen, informs Danish TV 2. This is the roller coaster where the accident happened: Cobra is a 25 meter high and 400 meter long roller coaster The train is of the type «suspended coaster», where the passengers are seated in chairs that hang under the rail body. You are sitting in pairs. the path has, among other things, three “inversions”. That is, where the legs break up, and the head down. The trip has a G-effect of 4.5, which means that the body will weigh 4.5 times more than normal in one or more places on the trip. Source: Tivoli Friheden Heard unpleasant sounds Helena Fauerholt Bøgh tells Ekstra Bladet that she and her family have season tickets at the amusement park. She often takes the Cobra with her daughter. They have been making crackling noises from the track for a long time. – It is now a month ago that my girlfriend, my daughter and I heard unpleasant crackling sounds from there, which did not sound quite right, says Helena Fauerholt Bøgh to the newspaper. – We have season tickets there and have marked it every single time since, when my daughter would rather sit behind. We have not heard the same sounds from the other seats, she adds. She tells the newspaper that she thought all safety routines were followed, but that the accident scared her. – We trusted that all service checks are complied with. We now fear that they will not be. The accident happened on this roller coaster. Photo: Tivoli Friheden Heard that the sounds were normal Anita Morgan has also had a negative experience with the car in which the accident happened. She and her friends have not wanted to use it since. – We always tell each other that we are not behind. You are insecure there, because it makes noisy noises and dangles strangely compared to the others. The employee said it was normal, Morgan told the newspaper. An anonymous source tells the newspaper that the rear carriage, where the accident happened, was out of order on Tuesday. Two days before the fatal accident. Tivoli Friheden has been closed since the accident. It is still uncertain when the amusement park will reopen. Had a similar accident before Danske DR writes that an accident also occurred in 2008 on the same roller coaster. Then a carriage fell down. Four young people suffered serious fractures, and one suffered a concussion. According to Ekstra Bladet, at that time several of the bolts on the construction were faulty. It is uncertain whether the accident on Thursday is due to the same. Cobra was in 2008 the amusement park’s newest attraction, and was closed for several months for investigations. Henrik Ragborg Olesen is the director of the amusement park Friheden, where the fatal accident happened. Photo: Mikkel Berg Pedersen / Ritzau Scanpix Shut down The director of the amusement park, Henrik Ragborg Olesen, told Danish DR on Friday morning that it was too early to say anything definite about whether the Cobra roller coaster would be put back into operation. – But if you ask me, and I was here in 2008, where it was also a traumatic accident, even though it can not be compared to now, I have a hard time imagining that it will happen again, he says to the channel. Just hours later, the decision was made to close the track permanently. The Danish amusement parks BonBon-Land, Fårup Sommerland and Bakken tell Danish DR that they will not make changes to their safety routines after the accident on Friheden.
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