A person died, and several others were injured at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, officials said, after witnesses reported seeing a man fall from a roller coaster. The Cobb County Department of Emergency Communications confirmed the death but did not provide additional details about the incident at about 4 p.m. at the amusement park just outside Atlanta.

A person died, and several others were injured at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, officials said, after witnesses reported seeing a man fall from a roller coaster.

The Cobb County Department of Emergency Communications confirmed the death but did not provide additional details about the incident at about 4 p.m. at the amusement park just outside Atlanta.

Naturally, I don’t know what happened here. But I do know a lot about rollercoasters and how they work, so I thought it might be useful to put this incident into context for those who don’t.

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The context? That this is absolutely unheard of. One is nine times more likely to be killed on a commercial airplane than on a rollercoaster. Especially that rollercoaster. The ride in question, Goliath, was designed by a Swiss company called Bolliger and Mabillard (B&M), which, since 1990, has been the gold standard within the amusement industry. In its history, B&M has constructed 136 rollercoasters, 133 of which are still operating, and 18 of which are of the same type as Goliath. Despite those rollercoasters having given hundreds of millions — perhaps billions — of rides, nobody has ever died on one of them as the result of a........

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