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Accidents Involving Injury at Port Aventura

Official U.S. federal and state data on theme park accidents is almost nonexistent. That's why Theme Park Insider users are creating this visitor-maintained database of theme park accidents--to give public at least some information about attraction safety records.

Do you know of, or have been part of, an accident involving injury at Port Aventura? Report it to Theme Park Insider.

Verified Incidents

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5/7/1997 - Stampida - Submitted by morph3vs on 6/16/2001

A man fell from the car and was killed. (Article in Spanish.)

  • For more information about this incident, visit http://sudinero.elmundo.es/1997/07/07/sociedad/07N0066.html

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    • Follow-up:
    I have been to this park and went on Stampida at least 8 times over 3 days. The cars are extremely shabby, and the safety harnesses (several of the ones I encountered) are very loose fitting and may as well not be there at all. It's a really good wooden coaster, and I like it a lot, but I didn't enjoy riding it in the knowledge that somebody had been killed on it, probably due to the extremely poor safety restraints. -- Submitted by dstorey on 2/6/2005

    Unverified Reports

    10/9/2004 - Wild Buffaloes - Submitted by dstorey on 10/13/2004
    I was involved in a very hard, head-on collision with another dodgem and struck my knee very hard on an unpadded metal part of the dodgem. It was very painful at the time, so much so that I could not continue driving the dodgem and is still hurting now, 2 weeks later. These were the large buffalo dodgems.

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