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Accidents Involving Injury at The Great American Scream Machine

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6/11/2009 - Submitted by mattand2895 on 6/12/2009
I rode in the back seat. While going down the first hill, it felt like something snapped in my back. I couldn't breathe, yell, or talk for a few seconds, and I had terrible back pain for the rest of the ride. My back hurt for several days after. This has happened on one other wooden coaster before (the Gwazi at Busch Gardens: Tampa). The exact same thing happened on the ride except the pain was much worse and I went to the emergency room just to make sure that it wasn't serious.

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