Things didn’t quite go as planned as Cedar Point’s historic coaster opened over the weekend at the popular amusement park.
According to local reports and social media footage, the brand-new roller coaster, which marks the country’s first tilt coaster, left riders suspended facing straight down for several minutes.
A spokesperson for the Ohio park told PEOPLE Siren’s Curse “experienced a delay that paused the ride’s operation.” The spokesperson said the ride’s “safety system performed as designed, the ride was restarted” and reopened shortly after with no injuries reported.
Reports indicated the ride was stopped for just under 10 minutes.
Video footage showed maintenance workers bringing the ride back from its tilt following the malfunction.
The new attraction, Siren’s Curse, is known as a “tilt coaster,” where the track that detaches from the lift hill and tilts forward to re-attach with the track of the 90 degree vertical drop.
BREAKING: Sirens Curse at Cedar Point is testing!
— Wallin Ballin (@wallin_ballin) May 19, 2025
This tilt function looks insane if this is actually how slow it goes…. 👀
Makes me even more excited for the full size version going in at Qiddiya. 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/NvXAcWnDti
Upon opening, the roller coaster marked the first tilt coaster operating in the United States, with just one other such coaster open worldwide – Gravity Max at Lihpao Land in Taiwan.
Siren’s Curse is the park’s 17th roller coaster. The coaster, manufactured by Vekoma, climbs a height of 160 feet and reaches speeds of 58 miles per hour, traveling just under 3,000 feet of track.
Located in Sandusky, Ohio, Cedar Point is approximately a five-hour drive away from Chicago.
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