A rollercoaster ride turned into a bank holiday weekend horror trip after a breakdown left parents clinging onto their children. Screaming kids were suspended 20ft in the air "for at least 90 minutes", according to an eyewitness. Passengers on the broken fairground ride at Pleasureland in Southport, Merseyside were stranded while maintenance teams rushed to the scene to begin rescuing the 19 people trapped on the 22-person capacity ride with a cherry picker.
Children were pictured screaming as they dangled from a rollercoaster which stopped on the tracks on Saturday, August 27. Horrified onlookers watched as one girl was "carried off the ride unconscious" while her desperate father clambered off the ride to get to her.
The bank holiday visitors included Michael Bowman, 57, who had travelled with his wife Christine, 35, and eight-year-old son from Stoke-on-Trent. Speaking to the Mirror, they said that they left the park with safety concerns, after two more rides suffered technical issues.
