The riders waited for about four hours, facing up, on the roller coaster at the Pleasure Pier park in Galveston. There were no injuries, the authorities said.
In a statement, park officials said the issue stemmed from an undetectable sensor failure.
A recent malfunction at a Texas theme park left riders hanging, literally. See clip of Pleasure Pier coaster malfunction.
Eight students were rescued from the top of a roller coaster at an amusement park in Galveston, Texas, on Thursday evening.
All passengers who were stuck on a roller-coaster on Pleasure Pier in Galveston, Texas, have been rescued. Some of those ...
Shocking video from a French theme park appears to show an object falling off a popular roller coaster mid-ride. In the clip, which surfaced in recent days on social media, a Parc Astérix visitor ...