19 October 2016 - Water pump failed but nobody hurt. August 2005 - Three rafts mounted up together at the same time. October 2004 - A visitor fell into the water while unloading when rafts bumped together. January 2001 - Collision of rafts due to operator error. Queensland Emergency service personnel at the Thunder River Rapids ride. The inquest also heard there was no drill training for staff at Dreamworld to determine how they would react in an emergency situation. It takes approximately seven seconds," she said.ĭetective Sergeant Brown said the young ride operator closest to the incident had to signal to an operator at the control room, which cost crucial seconds. "It's not an emergency stop, it's a slow stop. "It is a confusing control panel and that has been raised by the auditors," she said.ĭetective Sergeant Brown said two operators managed the ride from a main control panel at another location which only had a "slow" stop button. Mr Whybrow said in the email, Dreamworld was "dissuading people from pressing that button".ĭetective Sergeant Brown said staff had raised concerns that the buttons to stop the rides were confusing. The court heard a memo was sent to employees about a week prior to the deaths, telling staff to only use the button if the "main control panel cannot be reached". "She was told not to worry about that button, no-one uses it?" Mr Whybrow asked. ( AAP: Dan Peled) 'Nobody uses the emergency stop button'ĭetective Sergeant Brown said the emergency stop button at the unload area was designed to halt the conveyor within two seconds.ĭuring cross-examination, Mr Whybrow said the emergency button was not clearly labelled. Police said the deaths could have been prevented if an automatic system had been put in place to stop the ride when water levels dropped too far. "Similarly, if there was an emergency stop at the main panel that functioned the same way … and it had been pressed … that would have also avoided this tragedy?" 
right up until the point of contact," Mr Cornish replied. Steven Whybrow, the barrister for Kate Goodchild and Luke Dorsett, asked Mr Cornish, "How long through that process could that pressing have been delayed, but still avoided this tragedy?" Investigators told the inquest that the ride staff had 57 seconds to identify a raft was trapped on a conveyor belt before a second raft, carrying the victims, hit it and flipped.įorensic crash investigator Steven Cornish told the inquiry that pressing the emergency button would have changed the outcome. Two children, who were also on board the same raft, managed to escape.ĭetective Sergeant Nicola Brown told the court a young female ride operator had access to an emergency button, which could stop the ride within two seconds, but she told police she was not aware what the switch really did.
Cindy Low, Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett and his partner Roozi Araghi were killed instantly from crushing injuries when their six-person raft collided with an empty vessel and flipped backwards in 2016.
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