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The coaster, which features a 160-foot lift hill, 2,966 feet of track and hits speeds of 58 mph over a two-minute ride, hit a ...
Top Thrill Dragster, which previously held the record for tallest roller coaster, closed after a 2021 incident in which a woman was struck by a "small metal object" that had come off the ride.
Top Thrill 2 reopened at the start of the 2025 season after the high-speed attraction was shut down for nearly all of 2024.
Top Thrill 2, the long-awaited re-imagining of Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster, will not reopen this operating season, the Sandusky, Ohio-based park announced on August 23.
SANDUSKY – The future of Cedar Point’s mega-coaster Top Thrill Dragster remains up in the air, even after the amusement park announced weeks ago that the ride was being retired.
Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster has been closed since an accident in 2021. Plans for a revamped ride were announced Tuesday. First Ohio Buc-ee's no longer opening in 2025, target date pushed back ...
New ride, new criticism. Top Thrill Dragster was shut down in 2021 after a Michigan woman was seriously injured by a falling hunk of metal. A lawsuit was recently filed by Rachel Hawes, who claims ...
SANDUSKY, Ohio – Cedar Point will replace Top Thrill Dragster with a new record-breaking roller coaster, Top Thrill 2, adding a second 420-foot-tall tower spike, three launches and a top speed ...
Rachel Hawes was left permanently injured after a piece of the Top Thrill Dragster rollercoaster fell and hit her head, she claims in a lawsuit against the park owner Cedar Fair L.P.
Cedar Point unveiled Top Thrill 2 on Aug. 1, 2023, the world's tallest and fastest triple-launch strata roller coaster, on the site of the former Top Thrill Dragster.
SANDUSKY — The woman, who was injured in 2021 when a metal piece of the Top Thrill Dragster rollercoaster dislodged and hit her in the head, filed a lawsuit against the amusement park.
A malfunctioning roller coaster dubbed “Siren’s Curse” left riders stranded upside down for nearly 10 minutes during its ...