Court sees pictures of ride flip before Dreamworld tragedy
AN inquest in to the deaths of four people on Dreamworlds Thunder River Rapids ride has been shown harrowing photos of an eerily similar incident that took place 15 years earlier.
Coroner James McDougall is probing the horrific deaths of tourists Cindy Low, Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett and his partner Roozi Araghi when their raft capsized on October 25, 2016.
With engineer Gen Cruz on the witness stand this morning, the inquest was shown photos of a mass of tangled, damaged and flipped rafts from a 2001 incident at the same ride.
On that occasion, no one was on board any of the rafts.
In a 2014 incident rafts also came in to contact with each other after a pump shut down.
A ride operator was subsequently sacked.
The inquest continues.
