At least one person has died in an accident on a family ride at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast, 9NEWS understands.Police said it appeared one person had become caught in a conveyor belt, which helicopter footage suggests was on the Thunder River Rapids family ride. Paramedics said four other people were injured.Emergency services at Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapids Ride. (9NEWS)Some people are trapped on the ride, 9NEWS understands. Police could not confirm the death. Emergency services were called to the park just after 3pm AEST.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/10/25/15/48/reports-of-at-least-one-dead-in-serious-dreamworld-ride-accident/?ocid=9newsgcfb

Different reports coming in, but it definitely was a water type ride and could be two people now. 

Seems it was the water rapids ride. A tube has upended and the people were tipped into the timber conveyor that pulls the tube up the top.

Been on that ride many, many times, very sad news.

Four people now. What the fuck.

Its Official now, 4 dead but 2 did manage to escape after the ride flipped. 

Is Dreamworld in trouble?

Condolences to the families.

its interesting that this stuff can happen, and there are incidents like this at american theme parks

BUT its because Australia is such a sparsely populated country with so-few theme parks it makes the news.

EDIT The question which will be dodged: What are they doing there in the first place on a TUESDAY AFTERNOON?

Sometimes the best times to go is during the week as there is less people, Gold Coast and Dream World is a tourist attraction so I guess most of them would have been tourists. 

Yeh, going during busy times is a real pain and not that much fun.

Sometimes the crowd is the point actually 

People arent that far from sheep

When I went there on holiday it was fully packed at Dream World and the rides took longer than 1 hour, hell even 2 hours. It was no fun at all, especially when it was shit hot and I was not used to the humidity.

I remember going on this ride, the only way it could have flipped is if they were doing something wrong I'm afraid. Sad that this has happened, feel sorry for them and their families.

I don't know, but waiting in line by up to 2 hours isn't my idea of fun.

Gimme the quiet days any day.

But anyway, we digress from this sad tragedy. Hopefully they can work out what went wrong.

I really don't know what would make you think anyone cares about your choice of when you choose to go on holiday.

Regardless, condolences. The language used by the medical spokesperson indicates something majorly fucked up - decapitation, crushed torso, body parts everywhere etc. 

Oh for crying out loud! Mate, I just made a comment. No big deal or whatever.

I don't understand why people are so uptight about stupid things. I never presumed anyone would care, I was just responding to some posts because waiting in line just wasn't fun for me.

If it's fun for you, then great. I wish you the best. Likewise, I couldn't give a stuff.

This was my line of thinking - what did they do to make it flip? It's been used so many times for so many years without an issue.

The report I heard yesterday afternoon was the 4 people who were "incompatible with life" were aged between mid 30s-early 40s. Very sad.

What this will do, particularly heading into summer, is kick every single water ride in Australia into review. I know my family and I were planning on going to Jamberoo in Wollongong, so I'll be interested to see if there's like a safety audit done on places like that. 

Condemned asking why they were there on a Tuesday afternoon as if it were a talking point is honestly one of the stupidest posts I've seen on this forum. 

I live on the GC and I can see the tower of terror from my house. Drove past last night on the way to the shops and there were emergency vehicles and police everywhere.

Apparently the ride was shut down for a short period during the day. Maybe there was a mechanical fault of some sort.

Condolences to the families affected. Truly a disaster made worse by kids seeing their parents die in such a horrible way.  

I remember as kids we use to try and flip the rafts (on a similar ride at Wonderland in Sydney). As kids we never got any where near tipping them.

The reports seem to suggest it hit a stationary raft near the end of the ride. It would have had to hit at just the right angle (and considering it was coming up to the conveyor belt I would have thought it would be slowing down.

Could the six adults on board the raft been doing something to make the raft angle up when it hit?? Just don't see how it could happen ... unless just one of those unfortunate accidents (theme parks tend to have lots of cameras around rides ... be interesting to know if there is video footage of what led to the accident).

Truly sad accident though, and condolences to the families.

Latest reports seem to suggest there was a malfunction of some time ...
4 Die at Dreamworld

It shits me seeing the media have a go at the way ambo's described the injuries. It's as if they said "c*nt got mangled".

Why do the media obsess and create this unwarranted outrage over something so minor.

Bunch of c*nts.

So, this is a Dreamworld customer review from 2 weeks ago

Good find, don't think I will be going to Dream World ever again after this incident.

Dont think dream world can recover  from this, unlike america  we dont have an abundance  of theme parks. the operators of dreamworld will get their asses handed to them by qld's workplace authority 

Geez. Rumours it will never open again.

Seriously wtf is wrong with  you? all you do ia post shitty posts to get some sort of reaction ,  are you  mr football in disguise ?

Discussed this tragedy with a few people at work, including the OHS guys. Everyone expected it'll be the end of Dreamworld

I don't think he is playing with a full deck. 

What a fucked up situation. Cant believe that kid has to match his mother die like she did. How fucking cruel and morbid. One second your laughing and having fun, the next youre getting cut to ribbons by a conveyor belt.

Some people are really bad at empathy but in this case I suspect you're right.