{"id":453665,"date":"2026-10-01T22:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:42:13","slug":"video-captures-moment-when-coaster-gets-stuck-at-vertical-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453665\/","title":{"rendered":"Video captures moment when coaster gets stuck at vertical drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Oh, we’re stuck now’: Video captures scary moment when roller coaster gets stuck at vertical drop<\/p>\n

\"KateAUSTIN, Texas \u2014<\/p>\n

Riders in Texas experienced a frightening moment after a roller coaster paused in a vertical position for nine minutes during the amusement park’s opening weekend, forcing riders to evacuate.<\/p>\n

It happened at the new amusement park COTALAND<\/a> in Austin, Texas, on its Circuit Breaker roller coaster. The ride has a “tilt” feature where it pivots and pauses at a high point of the ride before resuming. The ride stopped for nine minutes, causing riders to evacuate and walk down approximately 100 steps to get down, KXAN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Maybe it’s just a little delayed,” Nicholas Thomas, who had already ridden the ride multiple times, told KXAN. “One second turns into two seconds turns into three seconds, and that\u2019s when I realized, like, ‘Oh, we’re stuck now.'”<\/p>\n

The roller coaster paused again for about two minutes at the same spot on Sunday before the ride resumed. No one was hurt in either of the incidents.<\/p>\n

The Circuit Breaker has been operating since October 2025 and reaches up to 130 feet high, according to KTBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The amusement park is on the property of the Circuit of the Americas racetrack.<\/p>\n

The roller coaster is at the center of a lawsuit filed in May based on a December malfunction when it was stuck for nearly an hour, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Oh, we’re stuck now’: Video captures scary moment when roller coaster gets stuck at vertical drop AUSTIN, Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[155882,54980,132,134,133,155873,1037,8664,155883,112955,154663,8044,1932,25103,155879,155875,27410,155877,112297,4735,155881,155876,155885,27,155886,155880,155874,155878,155884,108295],"class_list":["post-453665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-130-feet","tag-amusement-park","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-circuit-breaker","tag-circuit-of-the-americas","tag-cotaland","tag-december-malfunction","tag-kmnd","tag-ktbc","tag-kxan","tag-lawsuit","tag-minute","tag-nicholas-thomas","tag-opening-weekend","tag-ride","tag-ride-evacuation","tag-rider","tag-roller-coaster","tag-roller-coaster-malfunction","tag-roller-coaster-stuck","tag-same-spot","tag-texas","tag-tilt","tag-tilt-feature","tag-vertical-drop","tag-vertical-position","tag-video-capture","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}