Anna Ferguson

It was called the Mad Max or the Mad Mouse.

Sorry, my memory is a little fuzzy sometimes, but it was probably the biggest roller coaster.

And it's one of the oldest roller coasters that they have at the Royal Melbourne Show.

It's a rickety old roller coaster and there's lots of dips and you're going around corners very, very quickly.

And it was probably like the scariest one available.

Yeah, so in the carts you sat one in front of the other.

So my eldest sister was behind me and then the cart behind mine and my sister's was my dad and my other sister.

So we were all kind of in a row together but we were sitting one in front of the other so you couldn't see the person behind you but I was like right at the front of everybody.

Relatively quickly.

I mean, I had my eyes closed for probably most of the ride up into the point, but I had no reference point of what a roller coaster should be like.

So when things started to shift in, like, how it was actually working, I...

didn't actually fundamentally know something was going wrong.

So essentially the cart in front of ours went down like a big dip and it got stuck at the top of that dip.

And then mine and my sister's cart went down that dip and slammed into the back of theirs.

And

you know, at that point I was like, that didn't feel good, but I was very confused.

I didn't quite understand, was this part of the ride?

Should I be like, woo, this is fun.

And it wasn't until I kind of heard my sister moaning in the background in pain that I was like, something doesn't seem right.

But I had already stepped into this kind of space where I