CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A crack formed in one of the support pillars for the Fury 325 roller coaster at Carowinds in North Carolina. The ride has been closed pending repairs.
An N.C. state inspection of Carowinds’ Fury 325 roller coaster, one of the world’s tallest and most popular coasters, began Monday after a crack in a support pillar was reported by a visitor on Friday.
The amusement park shut down the steel roller coaster that day, but many questions remain about the circumstances that led up to that moment at Carowinds: What caused the crack; when did it begin to show; how did Carowinds’ daily ride inspections miss a crack that ultimately was spotted by a patron; and how close did the amusement park come to avoiding a potential disaster.
