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The Most Dangerous Amusement Park Rides

Over 2,000 people were hurt on theme park rides last year, according to Daily Beast estimates. From deadly slides to killer flumes, VIEW OUR RANKING of the rides that caused the most injuries.

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Americans logged roughly 300 million visits to amusement parks last year, and the vast majority surely enjoyed this classic summer diversion. A few hundred clearly did not: More than 2,000 people sustained injuries on amusement park rides, dozens of which required overnight hospital care, according to a state-by-state analysis of...

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