{"id":59834,"date":"2026-09-01T02:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/lowestoft-rollercoaster-beaks-down-with-27-people-being-rescued\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:09:06","slug":"lowestoft-rollercoaster-beaks-down-with-27-people-being-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/lowestoft-rollercoaster-beaks-down-with-27-people-being-rescued\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowestoft rollercoaster beaks down with 27 people being rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Park visitor Richard Lines said he was on another ride close to Wipeout, when a power cut appeared to affect multiple rides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lines said he saw a worker subsequently tending to the ride, which was stationary, and this moment can be seen in video footage shared with the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The carriages then begin moving again, but within seconds, they can be seen slowly rolling back and forth, before coming to a standstill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lines said the fire service used an aerial ladder to free the passengers one-by-one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You feel sorry for the ones that were either at the front or the back who were up there for a good three hours &#8211; which is a long time,&#8221; said Lines, from Wymondham in Norfolk, who was visiting with his two children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire service said by 17:10 they had rescued all 27 passengers and that no-one was injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c05rle7zqedo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park visitor Richard Lines said he was on another ride close to Wipeout, when a power cut appeared to affect multiple rides. Lines said he saw a worker subsequently tending to the ride, which was stationary, and this moment can be seen in video footage shared with the BBC. The carriages then begin moving again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[16537,16536,70,2362,9327],"class_list":["post-59834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-beaks","tag-lowestoft","tag-people","tag-rescued","tag-rollercoaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59836,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59834\/revisions\/59836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}