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JACKSON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WABC) -- Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, confirmed the long-rumored closure of two of its roller coasters, including the iconic Kingda Ka.
Kingda Ka was ranked as the world's "tallest and fastest coaster" and has delivered more than 12 million rides since 2005, Six Flags said.
Green Lantern was named as the other coaster that will be retired, Six Flags announced on Thursday.
The Twister and Parachutes will also be removed, and The Sky Way will shut down for "future development," the park said.
The Flash: Vertical Velocity will open in 2025. It's described as "North America's first super boomerang coaster."
Then, in 2026, the park said it will open "an all-new, multi-record-breaking launch coaster." It has not yet been named.
"We understand that saying goodbye to beloved rides can be difficult, and we appreciate our guests' passion," the park's president, Brian Bacica, said in a statement. "These changes are an important part of our growth and dedication to delivering exceptional new experiences. We look forward to sharing more details next summer."
Six Flags Great Adventure retiring 2 coasters, including Kingda Ka; announces pair of new coasters
Six Flags Great Adventure confirmed the long-rumored closure of two of its roller coasters, including the iconic Kingda Ka.
JACKSON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WABC) -- Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, confirmed the long-rumored closure of two of its roller coasters, including the iconic Kingda Ka.
Kingda Ka was ranked as the world's "tallest and fastest coaster" and has delivered more than 12 million rides since 2005, Six Flags said.
Green Lantern was named as the other coaster that will be retired, Six Flags announced on Thursday.
The Twister and Parachutes will also be removed, and The Sky Way will shut down for "future development," the park said.
New Six Flags Great Adventure coasters in 2025 and 2026
The park said two new coasters will be debuting in the coming years.The Flash: Vertical Velocity will open in 2025. It's described as "North America's first super boomerang coaster."
Then, in 2026, the park said it will open "an all-new, multi-record-breaking launch coaster." It has not yet been named.
"We understand that saying goodbye to beloved rides can be difficult, and we appreciate our guests' passion," the park's president, Brian Bacica, said in a statement. "These changes are an important part of our growth and dedication to delivering exceptional new experiences. We look forward to sharing more details next summer."
The Internet is a wild place, the way they edited that video is insane... But on a sidenote, that lady falling off the ride happened before the pandemic if I'm not mistaken... Fucked up situation but for sure not recent
This should be a federal crime IT just don't make sense
Mom was flung from Six Flags ride after 'harness didn't lock properly'
Dallas, Texas mother Rosa Ayala-Gaona Esparza, 52, was ejected from her seat in the Texas Giant rollercoaster in front of her mortified daughter on July 19.
* this is from 2016 I don't like how these social media sites try to mess up dates. And the editing is wild. Social Media is a f*cking cesspool
Mom was flung from Six Flags ride after 'harness didn't lock properly'
Dallas, Texas mother Rosa Ayala-Gaona Esparza, 52, was ejected from her seat in the Texas Giant rollercoaster in front of her mortified daughter on July 19.
Mom was flung to her death from Six Flags rollercoaster after 'harness didn't come all the way down in car operators knew was faulty'
- Dallas, Texas mother Rosa Esparza, 52, was ejected from her seat in the Texas Giant in front of her mortified daughter on July 19
- Her partially severed body was found wrapped around a support beam on the roof of the Honky Tonk tunnel
- According to a newly released police report, the ride operator said he recalled thinking the restraint wasn't all the way down on Esparza's thigh
- Esparza's family is suing park for negligence
- The company said it was not responsible for manufacturing or design
Published: 21:02 EDT, 11 November 2013 | Updated: 04:52 EDT, 12 November 2013
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A mother thrown to her death from a Six Flags rollercoaster in July was sitting in a car operators knew to be faulty and wasn't properly restrained, according to a newly released police report.
Rosa Ayala-Gaona Esparza, 52, was ejected from her seat in the Texas Giant in front of her mortified daughter at about 6:40 p.m. July 19. Her partially severed body was found wrapped around a support beam on the roof of the Honky Tonk tunnel, with blood and tissue scattered over a 75-foot area.
According to The Houston Chronicle, the ride operator told Arlington Police Department investigators that he checked everyone's restraints before the train departed, but when it went by he remembered thinking the restraint wasn't all the way down on Esparza's thigh.
The theme park has denied a mechanical fault was to blame for the accident.
Tragic: Rosa Ayala-Gaona Esparza, 52, pictured, who was thrown to her death from a Six Flags rollercoaster in July was sitting in a car operators knew to be faulty and wasn't properly restrained, according to a newly released police report
However, the harness was down far enough for the computer to register it as locked.
The police report also reveals that an investigator received an email from a woman who had ridden in car number 3, the car Esparza was riding in, the day before the fatal incident.
The woman said she was riding at about 6:30 p.m. and after the train had loaded, the operator announced 'all clear' over the loud speaker.
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But he then immediately looked down and announced 'Check car 3.'
She explained that one of the employees who had previously checked the restraints came back to her car and rechecked the restraint.
Then came another 'all clear' announcement and the ride began.
A witness riding in the fourth row, directly behind Esparza, corroborated the claim that her restraint was not properly latched.
Faulty: The ride operator told Arlington Police Department investigators that he checked everyone's restraints before the train departed, but when it went by he remembered thinking the restraint wasn't all the way down on Esparza's thigh
He told police both he and his friend tried to help the woman when they saw her feet in the air but they couldn't reach her.
Investigators interviewed 17 witnesses who either saw Esparza being flung from the car or only became aware of the tragedy after the ride came to a halt.
The woman's daughter, who is suing the theme park, was riding in the car ahead of her mother with her husband and turned around early int he ride to see her mother almost completely upside down in the car with her head at the floor.
As the ride began its third ascent, she saw her mother being tossed out of the car but didn't see her hit anything, the report states.
The daughter was then forced to endure the rest of the ride, not knowing her mother's fate.
It took fire fighters an hour to remove Esparza's body from the aluminum roof.
'The decedent's body was partially wrapped around support beam #471, with her lower body on top of the roof and her nearly severed upper body hanging over the south side of the roof,' one of the reports states, according to the Chronicle.
Reopened: The Texas Giant roller coaster ride in Six Flags Over Texas, pictured, reopened in September
In a statement to the newspaper on Monday, Six Flags said, 'Our hearts remain heavy about this accident and our sincerest condolences go out to Ms. Esparza's family.'
The theme park denies all allegations that it was at fault.
In October, Six Flags said in court documents that it was not responsible for the death because it was not the manufacturer or designer of the Texas Giant ride.
The theme park filed its response on October 4 in district court in Tarrant County to the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Esparza's family.
The ride reopened in September.
The company said it followed maintenance and inspection procedures recommended by manufacturer Gerstlauer Amusement Rides.
It also pointed out that about 2.5 million people had been on the roller coaster before the incident.
Six Flags announced in September that the notorious 153-foot tall roller coaster was to reopen with new seat belts and redesigned restraint bar pads following an internal investigation.
While the company maintains a mechanical failure was not to blame for Esparza's tragic fall, her family have accused the park of negligence and operating a faulty ride.
The $1 million lawsuit, filed in September names Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc, Texas Flags, Ltd. and Six Flags Over Texas as defendants.
Ominous: Witnesses said they heard Rosa Esparza complain about her harness before she fell
According to the suit, Esparza, who also went by the surname Ayala-Gaona, was in the front left seat of the train's second car behind her daughter and son-in-law.
The car had no seat belt or shoulder harness, only a single lap or 'T-bar' to restrain passengers, Star-Telegram reported.
'As the roller-coaster was in its first large descent, Rosa Esparza's daughter heard screaming and yelling behind her, and turned to see her mother in the process of being thrown out of the car, out from behind the safety in her seat,' the suit states.
Esparza was then thrown against a support piling as the car twisted and turned, landing on the tunnel's roof.
'She was then catapulted many feet below onto the metal roof of a tunnel,' the lawsuit states.
Before the mother of two fell about 75 feet, witnesses said she had complained her harness wasn't fastened securely.
'They didn't secure her right. One of the employees from the park — one of the ladies — she asked her to click her more than once, and they were like, 'As long you heard it click, you're OK.' Everybody else is like, 'Click, click, click.' ' a witness told The Dallas News.
'Hers only clicked once. Hers was the only one that went down once, and she didn't feel safe, but they let her still get on the ride.'
Devastating: Esparza's family is suing Six Flags Over Texas for negligence after the tragic accident
The suit states Esparza's daughter and son-in-law were forced to complete the ride for 'what seemed like an interminable time knowing that Rosa Esparza had been thrown out of the ride and not knowing whether she was dead or seriously injured and in need of immediate medical attention'.
It also claimed Six Flags employees initially refused to believe that Esparza had been thrown off the ride.
'It's a tragedy of the highest order,' Dallas attorney Frank Branson, who filed the suit on the family's behalf, told Star-Telegram. 'I believe it should have been avoided and could have been avoided.'
Following a nearly two-month investigation by the 'ride train manufacturer, internal engineers and external experts', the Texas Department of Insurance gave the park approval to start up the ride again.
Six Flags officials said it has now added 'incremental and overlapping safety measures' to the ride, including re-designed restraint-bar pads from the manufacturer and new seat belts.
The park is also now providing a coaster ride seat at the entrance to allow guests with 'unique body shapes and sizes' to see if they fit in the restraint.
Flung: The mother fell 75-feet from the fast-moving rollercoaster, pictured in action
'We are heartbroken and will forever feel the pain and sadness of this tragic accident,' Steve Martindale, president of Six Flags Over Texas, said.
'The safety of our guests and employees is our company's absolute highest priority and we try to take every reasonable precaution to eliminate the risk of accidents.'
Martindale and his family were among the first riders when it reopened in September.
The Esparza family's suit says Six Flags operators have known for decades the extreme dangers posed by such rides.
This was the park's second fatality. In 1999, a 28-year-old Arkansas woman died and 10 others were injured when a boat capsized on the Roaring Rapids ride.
In 2006, nine park patrons were injured on the Texas Tornado when one of the mechanical bearings that spins the ride malfunctioned.
'More often than not, the response of the Six Flags defendants to roller-coaster tragedies at their parks has been merely to feign surprise and to belatedly add safety belts in an attempt to calm the public's fears,' the lawsuit states.
Star-Telegram also reports the suit states that inspections done on the roller coasters since Esparza's death 'showed that various parts of the security systems on the ride were experiencing inconsistencies and intermittent failures.'
'In addition, Six Flags has now admitted that, after these inspections, they replaced a 'limit switch' for a restraint in the very car in which Rosa was riding because Six Flags found the switch to be defective,' the suit states.
Tyre Sampson was 14 when he died after falling off an amusement ride last year. His mother was there as the ride was dismantled
By Carlos Suarez and Devon M. Sayers, CNN
6 minute read
Updated 8:23 AM EDT, Fri March 17, 2023
Mom of teen killed in amusement park fall speaks out as ride is dismantled
02:57 - Source: CNN
Orlando, FloridaCNN —
As she watched construction workers dismantle the amusement park ride where her 14-year-old son died from a horrific fall, Nekia Dodd hoped no families will suffer as she has this last year.
Tyre Sampson plummeted to his death from the Orlando FreeFall drop tower in ICON Park on March 24 – a ride described by its operators as the world’s tallest freestanding drop tower. Bystander video showed the teen slipping from his seat seconds after the ride began its nearly 400-foot drop.
“All I am left to do is wonder, (is) imagine” what the rest of Tyre’s life would have been like, Dodd told CNN Wednesday.
Parents of Tyre Sampson, who died at a Florida amusement park, say they felt helpless in learning about their son's death
Wearing a shirt with her son’s picture on it, Dodd walked around the ride that took her son’s life; closed since that day, it is now surrounded by a chain link fence and construction equipment.
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“When I lost my son, I was not there,” Dodd said after her visit to the amusement park – her first time in Florida. “The last few breaths, the last few words I wasn’t there. I had to do something… to bring me a little closer to him…He took his last everything on that ride.”
‘Tyre Sampson was not properly secured’
The Orlando FreeFall raised passengers seated in individual seats 400 feet in the air. The seat then tilted forward 30-degrees before the gondola was released in a free fall that would reach 4G’s. The ride then braked at approximately 100 feet above the ground, according to an investigation by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which regulates amusement rides in the state.
The Orlando FreeFall drop tower in ICON Park in Orlando, Florida, is pictured on March 28, 2022.
Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma
The owner’s manual for the tower lists the ride’s weight limit at 287 pounds. Tyre was just over 6 feet tall and weighed 383 pounds, according to the autopsy report. A lawsuit filed by the family alleged that there were no posted weight limits nor scales at the ride site.
Following the tragedy, Florida officials hired forensic engineering firm Quest Engineering & Failure Analysis Inc. to investigate the incident. A harness sensor in Tyre’s seat had been “manually loosened, adjusted and tightened,” allowing for a greater gap than normal between his harness and his seat, the firm’s investigation found.
That “mis-adjustment” of Tyre’s “harness proximity sensor improperly satisfied the ride’s electronic safety mechanisms, causing both safety lights to illuminate and allowing the ride to commence even though the ride was unsafe,” the report said.
The restraint opening of the seat Tyre Samspon was sitting in is measure in the left image. The right image shows the restraint opening of seat 22 on the ride.
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Attendants were not instructed on “weight requirements or proper loading procedures and were trained that if the indicator light on the seat illuminated, the patron was safe to ride,” according to the state’s Bureau of Fair Rides report. And the attendant inside the ring that day had only been on the job for three days and was considered a “trainee,” according to the report.
During the ride, the 14-year-old “slipped through the gap between the seat and harness,” according to the state report. It concluded that “the cause of the accident was that Tyre Sampson was not properly secured in the seat.”
The autopsy report said Tyre died from blunt force trauma.
‘Why didn’t they refuse him?’
“When I got the call… everything stopped. I knew. I knew,” Tyre’s mother said.The teenager had been visiting Florida with his family and a friend from St. Louis. Dodd has spent the last year trying to make sense of how her son could die while trying to have fun with his loved ones.
“After I found out exactly what happened, why didn’t they refuse him?” Dodd wondered. “He was refused on other rides, why not this one? I know he is a child… he was like, ‘I want to ride with my friend.’ I get that. As an adult or the ride attendant, you should have made that call. His feelings would have been hurt but he would still be here with me.”
Family members and friends of Tyre Sampson leave items during a vigil in front of the drop tower on March 28, 2022.
Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma
The family’s attorney blamed the companies’ drive for money as the reason for the accident. “This operator manipulated and changed the seats to allow for larger people to sit there, which is for one reason: for profits. It’s to not turn away that $35 dollar ticket, that is what Tyre lost his life for,” attorney Michael Haggard told CNN.
The family filed a lawsuit on April 25 in state court against a number of defendants associated with the ride, including ICON park, the ride’s operator, Slingshot, its manufacturer, Funtimes Handels, or the manufacturer of the ride’s chairs, Gerstlauer Amusement Rides.
On Wednesday, the family said that they have settled their lawsuit against ICON Park and Slingshot but not against the foreign manufacturers.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed by the family. Dodd said she has created a foundation in honor of Tyre that will focus on school and scholarships to honor her son. She said that he was a “giver” and she wanted to follow in his footsteps.
'He had a great future ahead of him.' Friends and teammates of teen killed in Florida theme park ride honor him in vigil
A spokesperson for ICON park declined to comment on the terms of the settlement out of “respect for the family.” Orlando Eagle Drop Slingshot has not returned CNN’s request for comment.
Scott Rost, a local attorney for the ride’s Austria-based manufacturer Funtimes, told CNN: “On behalf of our client, we are saddened by the tragic death of Tyre Sampson,” and added that the company is “pleased that the park and operator has reached a settlement with the family.”
CNN was unable to contact Gerstlauer Amusement Rides, which is based in Germany, for comment.
Rost declined to comment on the merits of the family’s lawsuit but did note that “the Florida Agriculture report show that there were alterations to the ride beyond what was manufactured.”
Fighting for new safety measures
All week, the road in front of the ride was blocked to traffic, as a large tower crane worked to take down the ride. Pieces of the large structure were placed on flat bed semi-trucks and taken away.“I honestly didn’t think that was going to happen,” Dodd said of the ride’s removal. “I do appreciate that they have honored my request of removing the ride, but I am still without a son. I guess if I put numbers on it, it is 25% of closure.”
Attorney Ben Crump says footage of teen falling to his death is one of the worst tragedies he's seen on video
While the family hopes to find justice in the wake of their loss, they are also fighting to change laws in a state that set records for the number of tourists last year – many of whom come to enjoy the amusement parks.
The family worked with state Sen. Geraldine Thompson to introduce the “Tyre Sampson Act”: A bill that would require permanent amusement rides to have additional safety requirements before rides open, additional training of operators and additional oversight from the state. The bill, SB 902, still has a long way to go with committee hearings.
Work crews assemble the cranes that will be used to dismantle the Orlando FreeFall on March 14, 2023.
Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma
“The sooner this is enacted, the safer Florida is. It is that important. This can happen again,” Haggard, the family’s lawyer, said. He said that Dodd will join him in Florida’s state Capitol to support the legislation.
While the state’s inquiry has concluded, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating whether anyone will be held criminally responsible for the incident, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
“When questioned about adjustments made to harness proximity sensors, maintenance personnel asserted their rights under the Fifth Amendment” rights, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture report.
Based on that information, and other information developed during the investigation, the department said Orlando Eagle Drop Slingshot “has committed multiple violations” of Florida law, including “operating in a manner or circumstance that presents a risk of serious injury to patrons.”
“Our investigators are communicating with the State Attorney’s Office,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said. “No determinations have been made about criminal charges at this time.”
The Florida State Attorney’s office did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
Tyre Sampson was 14 when he died after falling off an amusement ride last year. His mother was there as the ride was dismantled
By Carlos Suarez and Devon M. Sayers, CNN
6 minute read
Updated 8:23 AM EDT, Fri March 17, 2023
Mom of teen killed in amusement park fall speaks out as ride is dismantled
02:57 - Source: CNN
Orlando, FloridaCNN —
As she watched construction workers dismantle the amusement park ride where her 14-year-old son died from a horrific fall, Nekia Dodd hoped no families will suffer as she has this last year.
Tyre Sampson plummeted to his death from the Orlando FreeFall drop tower in ICON Park on March 24 – a ride described by its operators as the world’s tallest freestanding drop tower. Bystander video showed the teen slipping from his seat seconds after the ride began its nearly 400-foot drop.
“All I am left to do is wonder, (is) imagine” what the rest of Tyre’s life would have been like, Dodd told CNN Wednesday.
Parents of Tyre Sampson, who died at a Florida amusement park, say they felt helpless in learning about their son's death
Wearing a shirt with her son’s picture on it, Dodd walked around the ride that took her son’s life; closed since that day, it is now surrounded by a chain link fence and construction equipment.
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“When I lost my son, I was not there,” Dodd said after her visit to the amusement park – her first time in Florida. “The last few breaths, the last few words I wasn’t there. I had to do something… to bring me a little closer to him…He took his last everything on that ride.”
‘Tyre Sampson was not properly secured’
The Orlando FreeFall raised passengers seated in individual seats 400 feet in the air. The seat then tilted forward 30-degrees before the gondola was released in a free fall that would reach 4G’s. The ride then braked at approximately 100 feet above the ground, according to an investigation by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which regulates amusement rides in the state.
The Orlando FreeFall drop tower in ICON Park in Orlando, Florida, is pictured on March 28, 2022.
Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma
The owner’s manual for the tower lists the ride’s weight limit at 287 pounds. Tyre was just over 6 feet tall and weighed 383 pounds, according to the autopsy report. A lawsuit filed by the family alleged that there were no posted weight limits nor scales at the ride site.
Following the tragedy, Florida officials hired forensic engineering firm Quest Engineering & Failure Analysis Inc. to investigate the incident. A harness sensor in Tyre’s seat had been “manually loosened, adjusted and tightened,” allowing for a greater gap than normal between his harness and his seat, the firm’s investigation found.
That “mis-adjustment” of Tyre’s “harness proximity sensor improperly satisfied the ride’s electronic safety mechanisms, causing both safety lights to illuminate and allowing the ride to commence even though the ride was unsafe,” the report said.
The restraint opening of the seat Tyre Samspon was sitting in is measure in the left image. The right image shows the restraint opening of seat 22 on the ride.
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Attendants were not instructed on “weight requirements or proper loading procedures and were trained that if the indicator light on the seat illuminated, the patron was safe to ride,” according to the state’s Bureau of Fair Rides report. And the attendant inside the ring that day had only been on the job for three days and was considered a “trainee,” according to the report.
During the ride, the 14-year-old “slipped through the gap between the seat and harness,” according to the state report. It concluded that “the cause of the accident was that Tyre Sampson was not properly secured in the seat.”
The autopsy report said Tyre died from blunt force trauma.
‘Why didn’t they refuse him?’
“When I got the call… everything stopped. I knew. I knew,” Tyre’s mother said.
The teenager had been visiting Florida with his family and a friend from St. Louis. Dodd has spent the last year trying to make sense of how her son could die while trying to have fun with his loved ones.
“After I found out exactly what happened, why didn’t they refuse him?” Dodd wondered. “He was refused on other rides, why not this one? I know he is a child… he was like, ‘I want to ride with my friend.’ I get that. As an adult or the ride attendant, you should have made that call. His feelings would have been hurt but he would still be here with me.”
Family members and friends of Tyre Sampson leave items during a vigil in front of the drop tower on March 28, 2022.
Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma
The family’s attorney blamed the companies’ drive for money as the reason for the accident. “This operator manipulated and changed the seats to allow for larger people to sit there, which is for one reason: for profits. It’s to not turn away that $35 dollar ticket, that is what Tyre lost his life for,” attorney Michael Haggard told CNN.
The family filed a lawsuit on April 25 in state court against a number of defendants associated with the ride, including ICON park, the ride’s operator, Slingshot, its manufacturer, Funtimes Handels, or the manufacturer of the ride’s chairs, Gerstlauer Amusement Rides.
On Wednesday, the family said that they have settled their lawsuit against ICON Park and Slingshot but not against the foreign manufacturers.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed by the family. Dodd said she has created a foundation in honor of Tyre that will focus on school and scholarships to honor her son. She said that he was a “giver” and she wanted to follow in his footsteps.
'He had a great future ahead of him.' Friends and teammates of teen killed in Florida theme park ride honor him in vigil
A spokesperson for ICON park declined to comment on the terms of the settlement out of “respect for the family.” Orlando Eagle Drop Slingshot has not returned CNN’s request for comment.
Scott Rost, a local attorney for the ride’s Austria-based manufacturer Funtimes, told CNN: “On behalf of our client, we are saddened by the tragic death of Tyre Sampson,” and added that the company is “pleased that the park and operator has reached a settlement with the family.”
CNN was unable to contact Gerstlauer Amusement Rides, which is based in Germany, for comment.
Rost declined to comment on the merits of the family’s lawsuit but did note that “the Florida Agriculture report show that there were alterations to the ride beyond what was manufactured.”
Fighting for new safety measures
All week, the road in front of the ride was blocked to traffic, as a large tower crane worked to take down the ride. Pieces of the large structure were placed on flat bed semi-trucks and taken away.
“I honestly didn’t think that was going to happen,” Dodd said of the ride’s removal. “I do appreciate that they have honored my request of removing the ride, but I am still without a son. I guess if I put numbers on it, it is 25% of closure.”
Attorney Ben Crump says footage of teen falling to his death is one of the worst tragedies he's seen on video
While the family hopes to find justice in the wake of their loss, they are also fighting to change laws in a state that set records for the number of tourists last year – many of whom come to enjoy the amusement parks.
The family worked with state Sen. Geraldine Thompson to introduce the “Tyre Sampson Act”: A bill that would require permanent amusement rides to have additional safety requirements before rides open, additional training of operators and additional oversight from the state. The bill, SB 902, still has a long way to go with committee hearings.
Work crews assemble the cranes that will be used to dismantle the Orlando FreeFall on March 14, 2023.
Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/Zuma
“The sooner this is enacted, the safer Florida is. It is that important. This can happen again,” Haggard, the family’s lawyer, said. He said that Dodd will join him in Florida’s state Capitol to support the legislation.
While the state’s inquiry has concluded, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating whether anyone will be held criminally responsible for the incident, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
“When questioned about adjustments made to harness proximity sensors, maintenance personnel asserted their rights under the Fifth Amendment” rights, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture report.
Based on that information, and other information developed during the investigation, the department said Orlando Eagle Drop Slingshot “has committed multiple violations” of Florida law, including “operating in a manner or circumstance that presents a risk of serious injury to patrons.”
“Our investigators are communicating with the State Attorney’s Office,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said. “No determinations have been made about criminal charges at this time.”
The Florida State Attorney’s office did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
Mother Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit With Orlando Theme Park One Year After Son's Tragic Death | Essence
14-year-old Tyre Sampson died after slipping off a free-fall tower ride at Icon Park in Florida during a spring break trip with his football team in March of 2022.
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A few people ran on this post to tell me I was chicken shit. And everything is EXACTLY as I explained it. There is NO FEDERAL agency overseeing Amusement park rides in the US. You are REALLY riding at your own risk. There's no universal standard, it's literally the wild west when it comes to the rides, how they are maintained and what sort of "safety standards" they set is random.Mom was flung from Six Flags ride after 'harness didn't lock properly'
Dallas, Texas mother Rosa Ayala-Gaona Esparza, 52, was ejected from her seat in the Texas Giant rollercoaster in front of her mortified daughter on July 19.www.dailymail.co.uk
Mom was flung to her death from Six Flags rollercoaster after 'harness didn't come all the way down in car operators knew was faulty'
Prior to the internet, the ONLY people seeing how often people were hurt or killed, were the people that worked there and (Shit, I didn't even pay attention myself as a teenager until I became a manager, then eventually a contracted shop owner.)
When I first started at the park (I believe I've told this story). I asked my boss, "Man, it must be fun working here, riding rides all the time?"....and he looked at me crazy and said, "Fuck no! I don't ride shit. I've seen too much"...I kinda looked at him like, "Dude is just old, I'mma have fun now that I'm hired in".....Years later (after I got my first contract) and I was creeping up into my 30s a kid I hired, said to me "Man, It must be fun being here all these years, you must ride all the time right?" and I looked at him and said....." Fuck NO! I don't ride shit here, I've seen too much"......
Remember what I said? "A 16-year-old thinking about his lunch break is in charge of your safety."
Drayonis >>>>
Parents of 14-year-old boy killed in fall from Florida amusement park ride win $310M
A jury awarded a $310 million verdict to the parents of a 14-year-old boy killed in a fall from a Florida amusement park ride.
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for 300 mill we can always have another kid.Parents of 14-year-old boy killed in fall from Florida amusement park ride win $310M
A jury awarded a $310 million verdict to the parents of a 14-year-old boy killed in a fall from a Florida amusement park ride.
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Fool grabbed his nose at the end. No need to worry about water going up it shit is probably already bleeding.
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