- Doctors aren't always fans of rollercoasters, water parks. There's a lot of things that can go wrong, especially for me 'cause
I'm scared of heights, but let's check it out. - [Reporter] Caught on camera, a carnival ride in India became far more - Oh, I think I saw this.
- terrifying than entertaining.
- Oh no, oh no, oh no! - [Reporter] Several
videos shows the ride, ooh. - Oh my God. This is why I
don't go on community rides. Like, no way. They're the biggest thing, obviously, head injuries 'cause you're
hitting your head back, whiplash injuries, but
also compression fractures of the vertebrae that line the spine. That's very painful and dangerous 'cause it could lead to
compression of nerves, which can create long-lasting symptoms or even lead to paralysis. - The ride fell about 50 feet.
- Wow. - [Reporter] Carnival organizers are blaming the accident
on a technical issue. - Well, what is the other issue? (tense music) What is this? Is this like... (gasps) Did he let go? What happened? - [Reporter] State
inspectors say the leg straps were not buckled and this
was simply operator error. - The fact that that child
survived that head injury down to the ground is a miracle. I can't tell you, when I saw that, I felt beads of sweat start
to pile up on my scalp because I thought that was it. Child suffered broken bones, collapsed lung, and a brain injury. Yeah, blessed. That's all it
was based on the concrete fall. How is there no padding on the ground? You gotta put padding! - [Reporter] Terrifying
moments on opening day of this waterpark in California. - Oh my god, water parks freak me out, and there's all sorts of physical
injuries that can happen, but with water parks, you gotta
know it's a brewing ground for contamination for bacteria and stuff. Swimmer's ear, otitis externa. You can get all sorts of infectious stuff, Legionella, E. coli,
Shigella, norovirus, Giardia. There's (laughs) so many bugs that could potentially be in water parks. Now if they're properly sanitized and all the rules are
perfectly followed to the T, there's much less risk, but
you still gotta be careful. - [Reporter] Watch as this
10-year-old boy plunges down this slide before he
toes off onto the concrete. - That's a lot of lacerations. Why don't they make them
a little bit more padded? - [Reporter] Three story slide
called the Emerald Plunge is part of the Bay Area's brand
new $43 million water park called The Wave, the attraction featuring two
tracks with 80-degree drops. - 80 degrees! That's straight
down minus 10 degrees. - [Reporter] Here you see the boy shooting down the green slide, and,
as he gets near the bottom, he flies up.
- What did he do wrong? He's even holding the proper position. - [Reporter] Over the edge
and rolls onto the ground. - And that hyperextension of his spine, it could really compress those nerves that come out on either end. - [Reporter] The child
suffered some bad scrapes and was briefly treated
at a nearby hospital before being released.
- What a lucky, lucky child. I wanna know what went wrong though. They're opening a new thing.
They must have tested it, no? - [Reporter] 8-year-old
Evie Evans says she was riding Twisted Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California. - I already don't like the name. There is nothing magical
about this mountain. It scares my poor little sensitive heart. - [Reporter] When she was hit
in the face by a cell phone that was dropped by another
passenger on the ride. - Wow, but, I mean, can you
blame the ride for that? You have to blame the other
passenger. That's terrible. And by the way, phones, I don't know if you've ever
been laying upside down and looking at your phone
and then lose the grip and it hits you right in the cheekbone. It can literally cut you. Hard surface, hard bony
surface, skin in between, cut. - [Reporter] Evie needed stitches to close a gash on her forehead. - Lucky it didn't hit her in the eye. You could lose your vision like that. (people shout indistinctly) Is this Splash Mountain? Oh,
this looks like a bad idea. This is terrible! This is literally a concussion waiting and drowning waiting to happen. (water roars)
(people shout indistinctly) Why? (distorted voices shout in slow motion) Is this an accident or
is this meant to happen? (water rumbles) (people shout indistinctly) Oh man, zip line scare me. (people speak in foreign
language and laugh) (woman screams) Oh my God, my heart just
stopped. Minor injuries? It looked like the rope broke. Man, children survive
the wildest accidents. See, there's like a fine
line between managing risk, like when kids go on a playground
and fall and get scrapes. Like some of that is not a bad thing 'cause you need to learn from how far you could push your body and how far you can take risks and managing those risks. It's all part of the development of the brain that's
important, but then like, do you really need to go in the middle of a mountain ziplining? Like, I just wouldn't do it. Like I've done it before, and I've regretted
doing it the whole time. - [Reporter] But it did
happen to Claire Clark. She was taking a trip down The Corkscrew, a towering covered slide
that twists and turns before touching down in the splash pool. Clark says to help get a start, she grabbed the top of the
slide as she pushed herself in. - And my ring that I was
wearing caught on something. I don't know if it was, you know, I guess it was on the slide, I'm not sure, and it took my finger away with it. It looked like there was
bone there and that was it. - Oh God.
- She says she knew right away - And they couldn't reattach it? - [Reporter] Doctors were forced to amputate what remained of her finger. - It's really hard to reattach
fingers, but it can be done 'cause there's a lot
of small blood vessels, nerves, joints, tendons. So even if they could reattach
it, would it be functional? - [Speaker] I mean, you
looked at the thing, and it looked like it was
something outta like a Bugs Bunny or a Roadrunner or cartoon
where they just made a loop and, yeah, there's our ride. - Some lunatic clearly just was like, "Build me a slide that's like that," and then they didn't consult anybody who had a background in engineering. - What? You should not do that. This is like worse than "Jackass." - And it just takes you. All of a sudden, you're
going really, really fast. The loop was fun, and yes, it hurt. You know, going through the loop and having your nuts get smashed on, you know, a fiberglass tube. - You think it's fun to
get your nuts smashed on a fiberglass tube? That is not my idea of fun. - [Person On Ride] So they sent
a couple other people down, and when those people came down, they came down with lacerations. They couldn't figure out why
these people had lacerations from a giant loop. Then they took the loop apart
and they found teeth stuck in the padding from the
first couple people. - This is like a full-on horror story. Teeth? Teeth inside of a water slide? Where are the parents of these children? How are they allowed to sign
consents for forms like this? - [Reporter] It's supposed to
be scary, but not this scary. - Oh my God.
- Watch Dallas resident David Salmon use his arm
to try to steer himself down a slide near Austin, Texas. - Oh, did he dislocate his arm? - Oh!
- It's even worse at normal speed. (people scream) - Everyone's reaction when
they're filming is the same. Oh, phone down. - [Reporter] David posted
on his Facebook page, "Too dang old to be
going down water slides. Fell off this one that
is over a rocky cliff, broke my arm, and fractured
ribs, multiple lacerations." - Again, lucky. (people scream)
(soft dramatic music) - [Reporter] In 2017, a brave
man plummeted to the ground while trying to rescue
children trapped in a gondola. 25-year-old Albert Irvin
climbed the ferris wheel to save them.
- They need a firefighter. - [Reporter] But But as
he freed the gondola. (people scream) - Oh, oh. He actually
fell pretty decently. I'm sure he injured his arm. Maybe his elbow, definitely
broken there, maybe even a rib, but otherwise, not the
most dangerous of falls. - [Reporter] And incredibly, he survived with just a broken finger. - Wow. Amazing.
- In 2016, 11-year-old Lulu's scalp was ripped off in a carnival accident. That's Lulu in sunglasses. She was happily riding on the King's Crown with her friends in Omaha, Nebraska. Then her long red hair got
caught in the mechanism. (deep rumble echoes) - How does any human after
watching this video still wanna go to a theme park and ride rides? - [Reporter] Lulu's scalp
and forehead were repaired using skin grafts.
- That's so scary. That's why they say no loose clothing, but goes to show how strong hair is. It'll take the skin right off with it. - [Reporter] A day at the
amusement park turned terrifying - Oh no, gonna get stuck.
- when a ride left people upside down for nearly four hours. - That's a long time. That's a lot of gravity,
having blood pool in the veins. Oof.
- Oh my goodness. - You could get nauseous,
throw up, pass out. - [Reporter] Kids enjoying
the July 4th holiday. - And hot. You gotta remember,
July fourth's peak heat. - [Reporter] Were stranded
when the ride stopped mid-air. Cheers erupted from below
when the rescue started. - It took four hours to get a ladder? - [Reporter] The last
rider was finally brought to safety four hours
after the ordeal began. - [Reporter] It was the first ride 13-year-old Kaitlyn Lassiter
and her friends rode, the Superman Tower of Power. - Oh my God. The names of these things. - [Reporter] "I remember
something else fell on us, which was more cable. We even had cables around our
necks, and we pulled them off. Something hard hit our
heads, and then we dropped." - Did the whole thing just fall apart and snap?
- During the fall, one of the ropes had wound its way around both of Kaitlyn's feet. This shattered her left femur
- Oh my. - [Reporter] and severed both of her feet. - Femur? That's one of the
strongest bones in the body! - [Reporter] Her feet had
now been completely cut off from the ankles below.
- Oh my God. - At the hospital, the doctors were able to reattach Kaitlyn's right foot, - Wow.
- but her left foot was too badly damaged to restore and had to be amputated below the knee. - The fact that she lost her
leg, I mean, is terrible, but you could so easily lose your life when you're that high up
'cause these rollercoasters are based on creating fear, and you create fear
with heights and speed, and heights and speed
equal medical problems if there's no way to break that speed. Those are some accidents. Here's some amazing lifeguard rescues. Click here, check that out, and, as always, stay happy and healthy. (bass-heavy tense electronic music)
