A bunch of amusement park guests had been injured Saturday night in a Common Studios tram accident close to Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles County Hearth Division was dispatched shortly after 9 p.m. PT Saturday and transferred 15 sufferers to hospitals with minor accidents.
The California Freeway Patrol mentioned a tour was underway on the studio in Common Metropolis and the tram was making a flip following the “Jurassic Park Automobiles” attraction.
“Because of unknown causes, whereas negotiating the flip onto Avenue M, the final automotive of the tram collided with a steel guardrail on the proper aspect of the roadway inflicting it to tilt and eject a number of passengers from the tram,” the company mentioned.
The accidents had been evaluated as “minor to average,” the freeway patrol mentioned. Neither medicine nor alcohol are being thought-about as elements.
A spokesperson for Common Studios Hollywood confirmed the accident in a press release and mentioned a tram collided with a guard rail whereas it was turning left.
“Our ideas proceed to be with the friends who had been concerned, and we’re grateful that primarily based on company stories, the accidents sustained had been minor,” the assertion mentioned. “We’re working intently with public businesses, together with the California Freeway Patrol, as we proceed our evaluate of the incident and security stays a high precedence.”
Common mentioned the Studio Tour has resumed “with a modified route” and the park is “reinforcing our operational and security protocols.”
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Common Studios is owned by NBC Information’ guardian firm, NBCUniversal.
In response to the park’s web site, the tram tour is ready to have fun its sixtieth anniversary Friday.
The Common Studios Tour provides park guests an opportunity to journey a tram by way of behind-the-scenes places of a few of the studio’s famed movies whereas tour guides impart a few of the historical past of the lot.
Lots of the places are nonetheless used for filming, so the places might change. A constantly common attraction contains re-creations of scenes corresponding to a “Jaws”-style shark assault.