A theme park has been forced to shut down its new multi-million pound rollercoaster after reports a bolt was seen to fall from the ride. Alton Towers said visitors queuing for the Smiler ride claim ...

The young couple, now married, had boarded the Alton Towers' Smiler ride, but an oversight meant their train was dispatched ...

LONDON – One roller coaster car slammed into another Tuesday on one of Britain’s biggest amusement park rides, leaving four teenagers seriously injured and stranding passengers 25 feet in the air, ...

The worker operating The Smiler ride at Alton Towers which crashed seriously injuring four people has reportedly been sacked. Theme park operators Merlin this week said “human error” was to blame for ...

Alton Towers' Smiler rollercoaster has broken down just months after reopening after a crash. People were trapped with the ride stationary on the track, with some hanging upside down in mid-air, ...

Alton Towers has been hit with more problems as a rollercoaster was forced to temporarily close on the park's re-opening. Last week 16 people were injured when a carriage on the The Smiler crashed ...

THE Alton Towers horror crash will cost the park owners £50million, they revealed yesterday. Owners Merlin shut down the park for four days after the Smiler rollercoaster crash last month in which ...

LONDON (AP) — One roller coaster car slammed into another Tuesday on one of Britain’s biggest amusement park rides, leaving four teenagers seriously injured and stranding passengers 25 feet (8 meters) ...

Alton Towers operator Merlin Attractions has been fined £5 million at Stafford Crown Court after admitting health and safety breaches over The Smiler rollercoaster crash. The crash left two teenagers ...

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Beverley and Alan Williams - whose daughter died in 2004 say rides are "flirting with the boundaries of technology" Fears: Beverley and Alan Williams say theme park rides musn't been seen as ...

Leah Washington-Pugh was just 17 when the incident took place, on June 2, 2015, while on a date with her now-husband Joe Pugh ...