If you’ve ever spent any amount of time at a theme park or amusement park, then there’s a safe bet you’ve been on a ride when it stopped working. It’s not uncommon for a ride to stop every now and then. Usually, it’s a brief inconvenience before things get back to normal. In a worst-case scenario, you may need to be evacuated from the ride. However, a recent roller coaster stop at a Texas entertainment venue made the already thrilling coaster a bit more terrifying.
The incident took place at Cotaland, an amusement park adjunct to the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) racing venue outside of Austin, Texas. The park includes Circuit Breaker, Texas’s only tilt coaster. Unfortunately for two riders last night, the tilt feature malfunctioned, leading to them being stuck in a vertical position over 100 feet in the air. The image was captured on Twitter.
