And closing the park, even briefly, would drive most of Santa Luisa’s teenagers stark, raving mad. Good thing, too, Tess often thought, since without The Boardwalk half the population of their little town would be unemployed. Thanks to a mild climate, The Boardwalk was open year-round. She had lived in Santa Luisa all of her life and she was used to the sounds of The Boardwalk, the amusement park lining the oceanfront of the Southern California community. And fries and a large Coke, at a stand not far from where the multicolored cars were making their labored, rattle-clackety climb up the last and most treacherous leg of their journey. And it sent a dozen other roller-coaster riders and ten passersby on the ground to the Santa Luisa Medical Center in screaming ambulances.īefore the crash, Tess was buying a hot dog. The crash killed Dade Lewis, destroyed Sheree Buchanan’s face, and separated Joey Furman forever from his left leg.
TESS LANDERS WOULD ALWAYS remember exactly where she was and what she was doing when The Devil’s Elbow roller coaster went flying off its track, shooting straight out into the air and hanging there for a few seconds, before giving in to gravity and plummeting straight to the ground. Five more teens will suffer before the killer is through, and Tess may be about to put herself on the list of victims. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. It’s the worst tragedy Santa Luisa has ever seen, but it’s only the beginning. As people rush to help, Tess spies a black-suited figure running away from the crowd. One of Tess’s classmates is dead on impact, two are forever maimed, and over twenty others are taken to the hospital. Tess is eating a hot dog when the Boardwalk’s roller coaster-the Devil’s Elbow-jumps the track, hangs for a moment in the air, and then plummets to the ground.
The amusement park employs half the town’s workers, pulls in tourists, and gives teenagers like Tess Landers someplace to hang out on the weekends. If it weren’t for the Boardwalk, the small town of Santa Luisa might disappear altogether. A high schooler suspects that a tragic roller coaster crash wasn’t an accident
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