California IN BRIEF : ANAHEIM : Man Found Injured at Disneyland

A 40-year-old Romanian man was hospitalized after he was found lying injured alongside the tracks of Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain roller coaster ride. Paramedics said Grigore Grigorean may have tried to exit the twisting, curving train that speeds through the mountain. But a Disney spokesman said no witnesses were able to say they actually saw him on the ride, or fall. “Quite frankly, we don’t know how he ended up where he was found,” Disneyland spokesman John McClintock said. Grigorean was in stable condition at UC Irvine Medical Center. Disneyland officials said he suffered a cut on his leg, but paramedics described it as a fracture. The hospital would not comment and Grigorean declined interviews. The Frontierland attraction was shut down for several hours and inspected before it reopened, park officials said. “The inspection found nothing,” McClintock said. “There has never been a failure of that (safety bar) system on that ride.”