Amusement park death highlights need for safety

Published August 10, 2016 This content is archived.

An article in USA Today about a 10-year-old boy who was killed in a waterpark accident on Sunday and the need for greater safety in amusement parks quotes Jun Zhuang, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, who said it is virtually impossible to test water slides for all possible combinations of weather and wind conditions. “The newly designed tallest, fastest, steepest water slides … attain higher and higher speeds and become more and more dangerous,” he said.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/08/09/amusement-park-ride-injuries-statistics-children/88483472/