Disneyland has fessed up that its maintenance personnel failed to perform key preventive maintenance tasks on its Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, leading to the crash which killed 22-year-old Marcelo Torres of Gardena, Calif.
The Sept. 5 crash on the Frontierland coaster happened after an upstop, or guide, wheel fell off the coaster. That wheel travels underneath the coaster's steel track rail, preventing the coaster car from lifting off the track. Without the wheel, the coaster partially derailed, leading to Torres' death from blunt-force injuries.
"Our own analysis found that the accident was caused by incorrectly performed maintenance tasks required by Disneyland policy and procedures that resulted in a mechanical failure," park spokesperson Leslie Goodman told the L.A. Times.
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