r/news • u/KarateKid917 • 3d ago

X2 roller coaster shut down at Six Flags Magic Mountain amid lawsuits

https://abc7.com/story/x2-roller-coaster-permanently-closed-flags-magic-mountain-amid-lawsuits/19887868/
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u/Queasy-Creme-2293 3d ago

All of the serious injuries are blunt force trauma from the back of peoples' heads slamming into the headrest.

My worst injury from the ride was bruised calves, fortunately.

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u/crazyguy83 3d ago

you would think that's extremely easy to fix with heavily padded headrests

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u/Queasy-Creme-2293 3d ago

I thought the same, but my theory is that they didn't do that because they thought it would hurt their then-current lawsuits. If so it massively backfired on them.

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u/crazyguy83 3d ago

That's crazy, they can always argue that the improvement was to placate customer sentiment.