{"id":930996,"date":"2026-10-13T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930996\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:16:09","slug":"one-dead-and-more-injured-after-incident-on-six-flags-rollercoaster-in-us-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930996\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead and more injured after incident on Six Flags rollercoaster in US | Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">One person has died and several others were injured in an incident involving a Six Flags rollercoaster on Monday afternoon in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a>, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The incident took place a Six Flags Over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a>, about 15 miles (25km) north-west of Atlanta, according to the Cobb county police department. The Cobb county police department said its detectives would investigate the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Officials did not confirm how the person died or what caused the others to be injured. However, multiple outlets reported a person had fallen from the park\u2019s Goliath rollercoaster, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/six-flags-over-georgia-police-respond-after-goliath-coaster-stops\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eyewitnesses<\/a> and anonymous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/10\/12\/man-dead-fall-six-flags-georgia\/92224487007\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">local officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/overgeorgia\/attractions\/goliath\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rollercoaster,<\/a> which was introduced at the park in 2006, has a top speed of 70mph (110km\/h) and a 175ft drop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A Six Flags spokesperson said the park and local authorities responded immediately and that they are fully cooperating with local authorities as they investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Local TV stations showed video of passengers being evacuated from the Goliath coaster. The rollercoaster, which was opened in 2006, goes up to 70mph (113kph) and reaches heights of 200 feet (61 meters), the park\u2019s website reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Late last month, Six Flags Magic Mountain, in southern California, announced that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/29\/six-flags-permanently-shuts-down-x2-rollercoaster\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retiring<\/a> its famous X2 rollercoaster <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/story\/3-new-lawsuits-allege-x2-roller-coaster-flags-magic-mountain-caused-major-brain-injuries\/19859240\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amid lawsuits<\/a> alleging serious brain injury caused by the ride. Six Flags recently <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/six-flags-x2-lawsuit-settlement\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">settled<\/a> a wrongful-death lawsuit from the family of a 22-year-old man who died after riding the coaster in 2022, and three more lawsuits alleging traumatic brain injuries were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/six-flags-magic-mountain-x2-roller-coaster-brain-injury-lawsuits-rcna600629\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and several others were injured in an incident involving a Six Flags rollercoaster on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-930996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}