A man describes his harrowing escape from a moving roller coaster named Desert Storm after his safety bar unlatched. He climbed out onto a catwalk to avoid potential danger, believing this action may have saved his life.
“I had mere seconds to act on whether I stayed on or got off,” the man told NBC affiliate KPNX .man said he climbed out of a moving roller coaster after his safety bar unlatched on Sunday, and the dizzying escape was he was riding Desert Storm , a double-looping roller coaster, when his lap bar unlatched just seconds after the ride began."We start the climb, and you hear the click of the chain of the normal roller coaster," the man told the Phoenix outlet.
He recalled hearing the lap bar click into place before the ride took off, but said the operator never physically checked to make sure it was latched properly.He told KPNX that he filed an incident report with the park, but was not given a copy.
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