10 hurt after rollercoaster derails in Scotland


A rollercoaster at the M&D's theme park in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, derailed and crashed Sunday, sending eight children and two adults to the hospital.
Details of their injuries have not yet been released. The Tsunami ride can go up to 40 mph, and boasts corkscrew turns and loops. A witness told the BBC "people were trapped upside down on the ride" after the crash, and a police officer said "five gondolas connected on a train on the Tsunami ride" fell "less than 20 feet" after apparently coming around a bend. After the accident, the park was evacuated.
This wasn't the first time the Tsunami experienced trouble — in 2011, nine passengers were stranded for eight hours on the ride when it broke down with gondolas 60 feet above the ground. In March, firefighters had to rescue eight people on the park's Tornado rollercoaster when it shut down 20 feet in the air.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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