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There’s been an extreme amount of bad faith actors spreading propaganda + inciting fear about roller coasters/the clamshell lap bar in the wake of the tragedy on Goliath @ Six Flags Over Georgia, so please allow me to address some things… B&M roller coasters are among the safest amusement rides in human history. Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M), the Swiss manufacturer behind world famous inverted coasters like Batman the Ride, hypers, dives, loopers + other coaster models has a near-flawless record on mechanical/design-related catastrophic failures. Via IAAPA/National Safety Council data, the chance of being seriously injured on a fixed-site U.S. amusement park ride is about 1 in 15.5 million rides taken. Fatalities are far rarer. Historical U.S. data shows only a handful of roller coaster-associated deaths per year (overwhelming majority linked to pre-existing medical conditions rather than mechanical failure or physical injury). Lifetime or per-ride odds of death on a coaster are estimated in the range of 1 in several hundreds of millions of rides. I had Grok narrow these odds even further down with an estimate of 1 in 2-2.9 billion of dying from mechanical or ride system failure on B&M coasters in specific. 1 IN 2.9 BILLION! That figure is now including the tragic and horrific death of Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem. So prior to the terrible events on Goliath @ Six Flags Over Georgia the past Monday, it had never even happened before. It quite literally might be one of the rarest ways in die in human history. My prayers are with the victim and his family, that is not a situation I would wish on my worst enemy, but please do not allow these scum political actors on X who have jumped on the news/tragedy for clicks/profit to incite fear in you and stop you from having fun at a park! God bless you all, as a friend of mine says, KEEP RIDIN’ COASTERS! 😉 - RCX