'Heart aches daily': Family of Dreamworld ride victims speak before coroner delivers findings
The design and construction of Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids ride posed a"significant risk" to patrons' safety, a coroner has found.
Queensland south-eastern coroner James McDougall is handing down his findings into the deaths of four people on the ride in October 2016. Cindy Low, Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett and his partner Roozi Araghi died when the Thunder River Rapids ride malfunctioned at the Gold Coast theme park.
He said there was no proper engineering oversight, nor were there any holistic risk assessments ever conducted on the ride. "Whilst there were various occasions … hazard identification risk assessment should have been triggered … this was never done," he said."Dreamworld placed significant reliance on ride operators to identify risks of issues."
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