These Gruesome Freak Accidents Will Make You Never Want to Go to an Amusement Park Again

Alpine Slide

New Jersey’s Action Park was notorious for its risky conditions and, as a result, closed in 1998. The Alpine Slide was particularly dangerous, in which riders went down a cement track on a sled with a manually-operated handbrake to slow down at the end. This unsafe attraction led to at least one death and forty injuries.

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