Roller coaster on test run kills worker at amusement park

A male worker was killed and another seriously injured Saturday when they were hit by a roller coaster being tested at an amusement park in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Oita, police said.Takashi Okubo, 44, and another worker were struck at around 3:30 p.m. as they were checking the roller coaster track at Kijima Kogen Park in the city of Beppu, a famous hot spring resort city.No one was aboard the roller coaster at the time, the police said.According to KK Kijima Kogen Operations, the operator of the amusement park, it was preparing to operate a second roller coaster on the track fr…READ FULL ARTICLE