Death and Injury in Coney Island: A 100-Year History
Jumping all the back to a particularly bad day in 1937, a 37-year-old Jersey resident fell, after a sudden lurch, from the Mile Sky Chaser, a roller coaster in Luna Park, as the car he was in reached one of the ride’s high points. Two hours later, two girls were on another ride, The Octopus, “when the apparatus suddenly went out of order and the car fell” about eight feet, the Times reported; they were treated at Coney Island Hospital.
