All parks also regard safety as their number one priority.
I recently spoke with Harold Hudson, who was Six Flags Vice-president of Engineering for 21 years. I explained that in researching information for this article I found numerous instances where people were concerned with the overall safety of rides at theme parks - particularly roller coasters. A lot of articles were written about the industry that it really did not deserve. He stressed exactly how much planning and testing goes into every roller coaster that is built in a major theme park. On average 1.3 billion rides will be taken on a roller coaster this year, the number of coaster deaths statistically will only be a 1 digit number.