If Australia has Dreamworld’s killer Thunder River Rapids ride, Kansas has deadly waterslide where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated

The days of exciting but killer rides in theme parks are coming to an end. After Dreamworld Australia permanently closed its Thunder River Rapids ride, the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas would demolish its killer 168-foot-tall The Verruckt slide.

The dismantling of the ride, which operators of Schlitterbahn announced on Tuesday, came after the 10-year-old son of a Kansas lawmaker was decapitated last summer. But the permanent removal of Verruckt would be done after an ongoing investigation is done and the court has given its permission, New York Post reports.

Besides causing the death on Aug. 7 of Caleb Thomas Schwab who was beheaded in an accident, the ride – the world’s tallest waterslide – also injured two female visitors. Caleb is the son of Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab. He has not, so far, filed charges or a lawsuit, while the women are investigating the accident independently.

Caleb’s raft lifted off the slide and hit a metal beam. Because the boy was at the front of the raft and other heavier passengers were at the back, it created an imbalance worsened by the combined weight of the three passengers who were four pounds less than the minimum weight needed.

The ride, named Verruckt, means “insane” in German. It has multiperson rafts that drop from a height the equivalent of 17 floors at a speed of up to 70 mph, followed by a surge up a hump and a 50-foot drop to a finishing pool.

Riders must be at least 54 inches tall, use a harness with two nylon straps like a seatbelt strapped across the rider’s lap and diagonally over the torso. The straps are held in place by long straps which close with fabric fasteners, not buckles.

Since August, Verruckt has been inactive. Gizmodo reports that when John Schooley, the ride’s engineer, took the inaugural ride, he was “terrified.” Rumors of test riders flying turned out to be false since the other test riders were just sandbags. To avoid accidents, the slide, which was carefully engineered, required exact weights and careful balance of passengers on the raft.