Big Dipper (Pleasure Beach Blackpool)

Big Dipper is a wooden roller coaster at the amusement park English Pleasure Beach Blackpool. The roller coaster was first built in 1923 by John Miller. In 1936 Charlie Paige and Joe Emberton extended the ride out, by an additional arch and drops to add to it. [1]

Big Dipper has 2 trains, both have three wagons, each with four double benches[1]  the race course has a out-and-back model.

Established In August 1998 Richard Rodriguez set a world record by over 1000 hours to drive in the Big Dipper. There is a plaque commemorating this event in the drive of the roller coaster. He returned in June 2000 to break his record, 2000-hour drive in the roller coaster. [2] ==Accident[ Edit] == Two cars collided on August 11, 2009-a total of 32 passengers-in the roller coaster on top of each other. 30 people were injured. The wounded came on six feet height stuck and had to go through the Fire Department from the Big Dipper be saved. More than 20 injured are transported to the hospital with broken bones, cuts and bruises.