A 38 year-old Ohio man was struck and critically injured by a roller coaster train at the King’s Island theme park in Mason on Wednesday night after having entered a restricted area to retrieve an unspecified personal item he had dropped while on the towering steel thrill ride, WCPO reports.
The ride’s called “The Banshee” so one would think that there would be some kind of screaming effect while the train is moving. Or at the very least he should have heard the riders screaming while being thrashed about. Then again a person riding at the front of the train told another witness it sounded like they’d hit a deer. If riders can hear that then maybe the Banshee just isn’t that loud.