One person died and three people were injured on a water ride at an Iowa amusement park on Saturday. One of the rafts on the Raging River ride at Adventureland Park in Altoona, Iowa flipped, resulting in the fatal accident, CBS News affiliate KCCI reports.
Adventureland Park officials said in a statement to CBS News that the ride remains closed as the investigation continues. “Adventureland is saddened to learn of the passing of one Guest involved in the Raging River accident on the evening of 7/3/21,” officials said in the statement.
Adventureland is working closely with both the State and local authorities on the investigation. “At this time, we ask for your thoughts and prayers for the Guest and their family, as well as for our team members who were on site,” the statement reads.
Adventureland officials said six people were on the raft when the accident occurred.
The ride is located at a remote distance from park entrances, which fire officials said made getting to the incident difficult.
“The farthest units I guess walked 200-300 yards maybe,” said Lance Routson, with the Altoona Fire Department. “The closest (walked) maybe about a hundred. That’s the closest we could actually get an apparatus there, and they would have to walk the rest of the way and carry their equipment and so forth back.”
It first opened in 1983. It was manufactured by Intamin Amusement Rides based out of Switzerland.
Park officials said Raging River underwent inspection Friday before reopening to the public for the first time since 2020.
Source: One person dead, three injured in accident on raft ride at Iowa amusement park – CBS News
