A ten year old boy remains hospitalized after he was thrown from a carnival ride at the Taste of Antioch on Sunday. Carnival rides were shut down after the boy was thrown from his seat and seriously injured, authorities said.
The boy was riding Moby Dick, which locks people in at the shoulders and then goes up and down as speed increases. The boy was thrown as the ride was moving.
“The carnival was packed, and so a lot of people experienced seeing it,” said Charles Smith, operations commander at the Antioch police department. “It’s a traumatic event for our community.”
The boy was in critical condition when taken to a hospital, WLS-TV reported, though his condition Monday wasn’t immediately known.
Mayor Scott Gartner shut down rides at Taste of Antioch after the boy was injured.
There have been other incidents on summer rides this year. On July 2, eight people were trapped upside down on a roller coaster at a festival in Crandon, Wisconsin. A large crack was discovered in the support column of Fury 325, a towering roller coaster at Carowinds, an amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 30.
