Doug McKay
Just after 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 17, 2003, at a windy summer fair 30 miles north of Seattle, Washington (USA), Doug McKay, co-owner of the fair’s carnival, was oiling a section of the most famous ride there, the Super Loop 2, while it was still active and full of passengers. As the coaster was going through the loop, McKay was standing right underneath looking at what to oil, and as the wind was blowing his hair straight up, his hair got caught by the coaster wheels swooping above him and carried him away with it.
As he was dragged into the air, he hit a bit of metal work poking out and his throat was cut — the cut wasn’t drastic enough to kill him, but was enough to spray his blood everywhere, including on a boy called Dylan Volz who was directly in front of McKay during the ride and got blood sprayed EVERYWHERE on him — and he was the only one of the 30 on the ride who got sprayed by blood.
The worst was yet to come: while McKay was still barely alive, the roller coaster looped the loop. The spin was so fast that it was enough to tear his scalp off freeing him from the coaster, and with his throat cut and head scalped, McKay flew through the air, with his arterial blood spraying a class of little children on a field trip who were waiting in line for another ride, before he crashed into a perpendicular metal beam folding him in half like a chair. He finally died after hitting the concrete ground so hard that guts, brains and blood sprayed all over a bunch of children who were unfortunate to be walking nearby.
After the gruesome event, the fire department and the local sheriff, Jan Smith, went to investigate, and did not find a single injury as a cause of death as everything was too broken to take into an account. The ride, however, was closed for the rest of the summer and was sort of used as a memorial for McKay.
This photo was the only one I could find of the Super Loop that killed McKay, or one very similar to it.
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