Eight riders were stranded nearly 100 feet in the air on Thursday evening after a roller coaster in Texas stopped during its ...

FOX 26 has learned the cause of why a roller-coaster in Galveston got stuck with eight passengers on board last Thursday.

In a statement, park officials said the issue stemmed from an undetectable sensor failure.

Officials responded to the stranded riders, who were students from Houston ISD, at around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Crews used a ladder truck to rescue them.

A mechanical issue left eight riders trapped facing upward for hours on a roller caster at a Texas amusement park before they ...

A recent malfunction at a Texas theme park left riders hanging, literally. See clip of Pleasure Pier coaster malfunction.

A roller coaster ride at an amusement park in Missouri turned into a terrifying ordeal, according to one local couple. “We get on the roller coaster and the very first hill, the girl sitting behind my ...