ThemeParkInsider.com

Official U.S. federal and state data on theme park accidents is almost nonexistent, so one of the best resources for those covering Friday's accident at Disneyland is ThemeParkInsider.com, an award-winning site that includes a visitor-maintained database of theme park accidents (read more about the site and its awards). "This is the third catastrophic mechanical failure causing injury on a roller coaster at Disneyland in a little over three years," the site reported shortly after the incident. "The two previous incidents happened on Disneyland's now-shuttered Space Mountain coaster. Such failures are extremely rare in the theme park industry. Almost always, injury accidents are the result of human error -- most commonly the fault of the rider but occasionally the fault of a ride operator. This level of mechanical failure on roller coasters at a single major theme park is unprecedented."

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