5. There Have Been Three Deaths on the Cyclone.

Over the course of the Cyclone’s 90 years, three people lost their lives due to fluke incidents.

The latest death caused by the Cyclone occurred in 2007– almost twenty years passing since someone had died due to the ride. The victim, Keith Shirasawa, was celebrating his fifty-third birthday when he was got on the Cyclone, rode the ride, and then exited with three crushed vertebrae in his neck. Shirasawa didn’t die instantly, but passed away a few days later due to complications from the surgery.

The first death occurred in 1985 when a 29-year-old man stood up just in time to get strike his head against a crossbeam. Then just three years later in 1988, a 26-year-old man fell to his death after crawling out from underneath his safety bar. Although the ride closed following the incident, it reportedly opened the very next day after being cleared by inspection.