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Stardust Racers Accident

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  • Start date Start date Sep 18, 2025
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  • Today at 9:28 PM
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Mad Dog said:
I guess some people just don't care enough about their physical safety and take safety for granted. Just about everything in parks has the potential for injury, if guests don't heed the safety recommendations and requirements.
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What is this supposed to mean? That none of the park's guests care enough about their physical safety? Because as you said yourself, everything has the potential for injury. Especially once you consider undiagnosed ailments. But it sounds more like you're trying to paint a particular demographic of guests as being reckless for wanting to ride.

KlownzNskullZ said:
They basically made it that if you can’t walk you can’t ride. Which to me is a major change to the standards in any ride.
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Yeah... no. They can't enforce that requirement at all. Not unless they want to be sued for much more than this guy's family is asking.
 
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  • Today at 9:38 PM
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AustinT said:
The discourse that Universal=unsafe is nauseating and all over social media now. Even being peddled by large creators like Jenny Nicholson. This is very quickly turning into a Disney vs Universal thing in the public space and I don't think it'll ever fully go away.

Signage was updated, new restrictions added, and the coaster was deemed safe by all parties directly involved. What else do people on the other side realistically expect them to do?
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The Jenny Nicholson rant was filled to the brim with ridiculous speculation and misinformation, but she has a big following so of course it spread like wildfire
 
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NotPennysBoat said:
Sad to say, but that is exactly what’s going on. And Universal will settle, no matter how much they know they were not culpable and the ride performed as intended. Crump is a sensationalist. He puts out negative information as quickly as possible, whether it is true or false before whatever organization is involved has a chance to respond so that all that negativity is ingrained into public opinion. This tends to insure a nice settlement.
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I totally agree that Crump is being a sensationalist here, but I don’t entirely blame him for doing what he’s doing….because that’s what the family is paying him to do. Again, I’m no lawyer by any means, but as a lawyer, Crump is going to do as much as he can to scrap anything he can from Universal for his clients.

I whole-heartedly feel for the family and I am very sorry for their loss. This obviously never should have happened. God forbid if I was in the same boat as that family and I had a very close relative suffer a similar situation that Rodriguez suffered, I would most likely take legal action as well. I think most people would. Even if I knew that most likely that Universal was not at fault, it would be nice to get some compensation out of that grief….and this is what’s likely happening here.
 
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Freak said:
Even if I knew that most likely that Universal was not at fault, it would be nice to get some compensation out of that grief….and this is what’s likely happening here.
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You see, that is the problem. In today’s society, whenever someone has an unfortunate accident, too many people want to try and sue somebody to get as much money as possible, even if the person or company they are suing are not at fault. Just as you said “Even if I knew that most likely that Universal was not at fault, it would be nice to get some compensation out of that grief.” Why should you get compensation if it was not their fault. Sure it was a horrible thing and it is truly tragic, but too many people want to make people or companies to pay even if it wasn’t their fault. In my opinion, the whole “I’m going to sue somebody” mentality has gotten out of control. Companies have to pay sky high insurance premiums and then passes the cost on to us.
 
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  • Today at 10:20 PM
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Jordan said:
What is this supposed to mean? That none of the park's guests care enough about their physical safety? Because as you said yourself, everything has the potential for injury. Especially once you consider undiagnosed ailments. But it sounds more like you're trying to paint a particular demographic of guests as being reckless for wanting to ride.


Yeah... no. They can't enforce that requirement at all. Not unless they want to be sued for much more than this guy's family is asking.
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You are putting your words into my mouth. ......Rides have safety standards posted. Guests, that are aware of their physical limitations, if they have any, are made aware of the safety issues.
The particular guest I was referring to stated she had X limitation and was complaining that Universal TMs would use their questioning in
regards to her safety on that particular attraction. She did ride the attractions. She complained that she was being made aware. Seems that
asking her if she could independently walk on to the attraction from her wheelchair would be a reasonable safety question.
 
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Jordan said:
Yeah... no. They can't enforce that requirement at all. Not unless they want to be sued for much more than this guy's family is asking.
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ADA Section 36.301(b): A public accommodation may impose legitimate safety requirements that are necessary for safe operation. Safety requirements must be based on actual risks and not on mere speculation, stereotypes, or generalizations about individuals with disabilities.
 
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NotPennysBoat said:
You see, that is the problem. In today’s society, whenever someone has an unfortunate accident, too many people want to try and sue somebody to get as much money as possible, even if the person or company they are suing are not at fault. Just as you said “Even if I knew that most likely that Universal was not at fault, it would be nice to get some compensation out of that grief.” Why should you get compensation if it was not their fault. Sure it was a horrible thing and it is truly tragic, but too many people want to make people or companies to pay even if it wasn’t their fault. In my opinion, the whole “I’m going to sue somebody” mentality has gotten out of control. Companies have to pay sky high insurance premiums and then passes the cost on to us.
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It would be one thing for a person to be a “Slippin’ Jimmy” to intentionally cause a slip n fall or orchestrate some injury to get some money out of Universal or if the victim died from clear stupidity. There have been plenty of instances like this a theme parks all around, especially at Disney.

It is quite another if situations like this are a little more grey and the person happened to die on the roller coaster. I think there is a fine line line between just trying to scam the park out of lawsuit money and wanting at least some compensation for a loved one losing their life on a roller coaster, especially if the ride aggravated their physical conditions that caused said death.

I’m not saying this is what your post is implicating, but again, I don’t exactly fault Crump or the family here. They’re not trying to be “Slippin’ Jimmy” here, but they’re hoping to get some compensation for this tragedy. In the other hand, I don’t think Universal is obligated to settle since they seem to be absolutely certain they’re not at fault.
 
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HandsomePete said:
ADA Section 36.301(b): A public accommodation may impose legitimate safety requirements that are necessary for safe operation. Safety requirements must be based on actual risks and not on mere speculation, stereotypes, or generalizations about individuals with disabilities.
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Yep. This issue pops ups often on the Magic site, especially whenever WDW has to fix/readjust their disability pass system for obvious reasons.
And, yes, this is the 'real' answer that gets posted over there replying to posters that throw around the legal action threats.
 
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