So six deaths at that park? Out of how many millions of people who went there over the years and had a great time?
Traction Park or Accident Park...it wad never called Class Action Park to my memory.
I'm going to bet this “documentary” is along the lines of Michael Moore/Morgan Spurlock hit job.
They post this stupid article every year or so, usually in the spring time.
Never mind the fact that Great Adventure, which is about 2 hours south of Action Park, killed more people in a freakin Haunted Castle then Action Park did in its 20 years of operation.
But nobody writes articles about Six Flags being dangerous
Now they owned their out ambulances, I love how the story changes with the reporters trying to grab clicks
In the 70’s, we would have tripled that number.
I went here many times. I loved it. It was gorgeous, fun and the rides were excellent. Truly an adventure. We were blessed to be able to experience it before our culture became “Karenized” and litigation happy. Yes, there were tragic accidents and something could have been done to mitigate them prior to disaster. Still one of the best amusement parks that ever existed.
Sounds like it was a blast!
yup- i was there in my late teens in the 80’s. Almost drowned in that wave pool. I was in good shape- training for the Olympics- and that wave pool kicked the crap out of me. I did all i could to climb out without asking for help from a life guard cause i didn’t want to be embarrassed. After i climbed out i laid there on the grass for 15 minutes, body aching.
i remember reading years later they were testing a loopy de loop water ride for people. They realized there was an issue when the human dummies they were using were coming out the other side of the loopy de loop decapitated.
So six deaths at that park? Out of how many millions of people who went there over the years and had a great time?
The comments at DM are great. They loved that place!
Wave Pools!!!!
I was in one in Arizona that threw people out of the water, it was so strong. Everybody loved it, especially my five kids. I actually thought one of them was going to drown from laughing at my feeble attempts to keep up with them.
Salt Lake City used to have a wave pool whose waves would easily capsize most small boats. You either had to float/swim in the deeper side of the pool, or swim to the shallow end. Trying to pull yourself up a ladder in the deep end was perilous!
I’m surprised Bruce Springsteen never wrote a song claiming it was all Reagan’s fault.
Only 2 of the 6 drown in the "Grave" pool
One died on the Kayak ride, the boat got stuck and he got out and stepped on a live wire
One crashed the race car and hit his head on a rock
One on the Alpine Slide
and the other
was someone had a heart attack on the Tarzan swing, which is questionable they can call it an accident but they blamed his heart attack on the water being too cold.
Great place from my youth. You knew the place was a little dangerous and that was part of the fun.
Been there, been on every ride.
I went there a few times in the mid-1990s before it shut down. I was also there this summer since COVID restrictions in Vermont prevented me from taking my annual trip to the area. The park that is there now has some of the rides that Action Park had in the mid 1990s, but they’re clearly toned down. The cliff dive is still open and the water is just as cold as I recall it being 25 years ago. They’ve torn out most of the alpine slide and that part of the mountain is used for biking trails.
I remember my first trip as a teenager, a bunch of us piled into a car and made the trek from Brooklyn... it was a rite of passage for many... sadly you can’t have “fun” like that anymore.
MJ
PFL
It’s not like they had the Monkey Bars.
“The monkey bars came in, we lost 124 kids in one day!”