Eight people were rescued from atop the Silver Bullet roller-coaster at Frontier City Amusement Park in Oklahoma City.
Emergency personnel worked to rescue the roller-coaster’s passengers, who were stranded atop the amusement park ride after it stopped functioning.
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On its website, Frontier City bills the roller-coaster as “like being shot from a cannon as you rocket through this high-speed steel looping coaster.”
The ride, which was introduced by the park in 1986, is Oklahoma’s tallest roller-coaster reaching heights of up to 25 metres.