Amusement park attendees in Sandusky, Ohio, went on a trip they’ll seemingly always remember on Monday. 

As scores of households flocked to Cedar Level amusement park for some summer time enjoyable, one group received way more than they bargained for when the Magnum XL-200 curler coaster malfunctioned and received caught greater than 200 toes within the air, in keeping with CBS Information.

Video that circulated on social media confirmed what seems to be riders being pressured to evacuate the trip and stroll down a steep set of stairs hooked up to the attraction to make it again to the bottom. 

A consultant for Cedar Level didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

Tony Clark, director of communications for Cedar Level, instructed Fox Information Digital that the evacuation was as a result of a “commonplace trip stoppage” and known as it a “verify engine gentle” state of affairs that prevented the curler coaster from restarting as typical.

Josh Lett, a park-goer who captured the incident, shared what he noticed on social media alongside the caption, “Glad I wasn’t these of us!” Fox 8 in Cleveland reported

In response to the theme park’s official web site, the trip is featured as a Guinness World Report holder for “its forefront top” which it says “is sufficient to amaze anyone.” When the trip was first launched in 1989, it made historical past because the quickest and steepest complete-circuit coaster on this planet. 

The trip, which lasts slightly below three minutes, can attain as much as 72 mph.

In 2004, the Magnum XL-200 was acknowledged for its spectacular design because it was given the ACE Curler Coaster Landmark award, cementing its monumental influence, the web site states.

The trip’s signature “pretzel turnaround” provides views of Lake Erie’s famed shorelines earlier than returning again to the Cedar Level skyline. The location additionally notes that on a transparent day, riders might be able to catch views of the coast of Canada on the horizon as they twist and switch. 

Ohio’s Cedar Level isn’t the one park to face a current malfunction that trapped riders. Simply final month, thrill seekers on the Forest Nation Competition in Crandon, Wisconsin, confronted a harrowing state of affairs.

Whereas driving the Fireball curler coaster on July 2, the attraction stopped functioning correctly, leaving these on board trapped the wrong way up for about three hours. Emergency personnel groups have been dispatched to help the group.

“It grew to become caught within the upright place,” Captain Brennan Cook dinner of the Crandon Hearth Division instructed NBC Information on the time. “The trip was not too long ago inspected by the state of Wisconsin right here on web site, and at the moment, we don’t have every other data.” Fortunately, all riders have been safely rescued and have been launched from an area hospital after being checked for accidents. 

Metropolis of Antigo Hearth Division Firefighter/EMT, Erica Kostichka, spoke with CBS 58 about seven kids who have been caught the wrong way up for hours on account of the malfunction, calling them “very courageous.”

“You understand lots of [the kids] you can inform, their legs have been shaking, they have been sweating, and it was only a matter of letting them know, hey, that is no race to get right down to the end line, the onerous half is over,” he stated.