Police say a brake failure caused a roller-coaster cart to crash into another.
According to Joe Levasseur, the state fire marshal's office public safety inspector for amusement rides, one of the connections that supplies power to the brakes became disconnected in the power box. The emergency brakes activated, which caused one car with two children in it to stop abruptly. Because the second car had already cleared the first three emergency brakes on the track, it ran into the first car, Levasseur said. The roller coaster was up and running again Saturday and has not had any more problems, Levasseur said. The injured child was to have been released from the hospital Saturday, Levasseur said, though York Hospital's Public Relations Department could not be reached for confirmation.