Woman hit by rollercoaster at Melbourne Royal Show while ‘trying to retrieve dropped phone’

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The woman in her 20s received critical head injuries and was taken to hospital

Police are urging people with information to come forward after a woman was hit by a rollercoaster at the Melbourne Royal Show.Police are urging people with information to come forward after a woman was hit by a rollercoaster at the Melbourne Royal Show.A woman is fighting for her life after being hit by a rollercoaster at thePolice set up a crime scene at the Melbourne Showgrounds in Ascot Vale to determine how the woman in her 20s came to be struck by the carriage about 5:45pm on Sunday.

A police spokeswoman said the woman had not fallen from the ride, and may have walked on to the rollercoaster tracks to retrieve a dropped phone. The woman was then found injured on the ground. Police said she was taken to hospital with critical head injuries.

 

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Sure it wasn't ave Yemeni?

A packed area & no one noticed a person on the track, not even the workers who run the rollercoaster?

ERN_Malleyscrub ? Bloody strange & dangerous thing for an adult to do Must have been awful for those there 😔

There were dozens of smarter ways to go about it...

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