This terrifying incident captures the moment a fairground ride malfunctions, leaving riders frantically shouting ‘please stop the ride’ as they are whirled upside down.
Will Venner, 20, and his friend are ‘fairground enthusiasts’ who have been to around 200 rollercoasters and 300 fairground rides.
But he said this was ‘the scariest ride of his life’ and the experience has left him having recurring nightmares and feeling lucky to be alive.
Will had been eager to ride the Kings Loop Ride at the Nottingham Goose Fair on September 26, a fair he had wanted to go on since he was little.
With a go pro attached to film a YouTube vlog, the two friends buckled up, laughing nervously at the start as the ride begins to spin.
The footage then shows the ride accelerating, as the chairs start to spin round faster and even flip upside down.
The duo are initially enjoying themselves until, about five minutes in, a jarring noise signals the terrifying moment when the safety bar securing them lifts.
The distressing footage reveals their desperate attempts to get the operator’s attention, screaming ‘stop the ride!’ ‘help me!’ and ‘please, please stop it’.
At the start of the ride, the safety bar can be seen in position and secure as the ride begins to accelerate and spin round
But five minutes into the ride, the safety bar is clearly seen lifted, to Will and his friend’s horror
A member of staff afterwards told them that it was impossible that the bar malfunctioned, saying they had cameras which would have shown it going up
The ride continues however, with the operator saying over the speakers ‘hold on tight’ and the ride continuing to spin and twist around.
For several minutes more, Will told the Daily Mail he and his friend managed to remain seated by keeping their knees pressed against the bar to hold it down.
‘I thought I was going to die’, Will said.
‘I had a lucky escape. If we’d have fallen out then we would have been hit by the other cars…I keep thinking about all the ways I could have died.
‘I’ve been on many rides in my life and I never expected anything serious like this to happen,’ he added.
Miraculously, Will only came away with a bruise on his arm where the loose bar repeatedly slammed down as the ride spun.
When the ride finally comes to an end, Will and his friend alert the operator that the safety bar malfunctioned.
They are heard on video saying: ‘you need to take this seat out, the safety bar came all the way up.’
Will Venner, 20, is a ‘fairground enthusiast’ who has ridden around 300 fairground rides – but says that this was his scariest experience yet
But the fairground worker said it would have been impossible, testing it to apparently prove that the safety bar was working to the distraught pair.
The worker shook his head and added that they have cameras so would have noticed an issue like that.
Will said: ‘That was the worst part of it – that straight after they tried to deny that anything had happened.
‘After that, I pretty much collapsed to the ground, I didn’t have time to process it.’
Once an activity Will enjoyed, the terrifying experience has now deterred him from riding fairground attractions again, understandably leaving him shaken.
The 20-year-old further shared that he had been in Nottingham to attend a show that evening but was convinced he wouldn’t be able to see it during the terrifying ride.
‘It’s left me distressed and very frustrated that the operators just didn’t listen to me or believe me,’ he said.
‘I thought I was dead for certain – the forces produced from the speed of the ride meant I was being pulled from my seat and nearly thrown out of it.’
