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Witness to horror fall speaks out. A witness - Page 2 - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 26th Oct, 2020 - 7:46am
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There was a barrier but you know how toddlers are, he was able to sneak around. I think the big responsibility are on the parents who were NOT supervising the baby. It is beyond me when I see parents showing little or no concern at all at the safety of their own flesh.
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Post Date: 14th May, 2009 - 3:46pm / Post ID: #
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Yes there was a barrier but the barrier was not in my opinion properly placed all the way around the ride if a toddler was able to walk around it and get into the ride area. Yes I hold the parents just as responsible for not properly supervising their young child.
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When I read this story, my heart sank. I am glad the girl is alive, I hope she makes a full recovery. However, I find a little disturbing that parents would allow their 12 year old daughter in such dangerous ride since participants were dropped more than 100 feet into a net with no bungee cord or other tether!
QUOTE Teagan Marti saw the free-fall ride Terminal Velocity at a Wisconsin Dells amusement park featured on a cable travel show and, being an adventurous 12-year-old, convinced her family to make the trip north from Florida to check it out.
Standing in line for the ride at Extreme World, the girl's mother Julie Marti recognized the ride operator as the same man who spoke on the show about how safe Terminal Velocity was, even though participants were dropped more than 100 feet into a net with no bungee cord or other tether.
Pictures of Teagan taken just before she got in the ride show her smiling broadly.
Her father started the video camera. Her mother watched anxiously from below.
And then the unthinkable happened.
Teagan Martin plummeted to the ground with nothing to break her fall.
Her mother rushed to her side.
"I saw her fall. I ran to her. She was bleeding out of her ears and mouth and nose," Julie Marti said Friday at a news conference inside the hospital where her daughter was flown from the accident site. "Her eyes were rolling back in her head and her lips were turning purple and I couldn't feel a pulse and I said, 'Teagan, it's mommy. Stay with me.'
"...It was the worst day of my life. I can't believe she's alive. I'm so glad she's alive."
Standing in line for the ride at Extreme World, the girl's mother Julie Marti recognized the ride operator as the same man who spoke on the show about how safe Terminal Velocity was, even though participants were dropped more than 100 feet into a net with no bungee cord or other tether.
Pictures of Teagan taken just before she got in the ride show her smiling broadly.
Her father started the video camera. Her mother watched anxiously from below.
And then the unthinkable happened.
Teagan Martin plummeted to the ground with nothing to break her fall.
Her mother rushed to her side.
"I saw her fall. I ran to her. She was bleeding out of her ears and mouth and nose," Julie Marti said Friday at a news conference inside the hospital where her daughter was flown from the accident site. "Her eyes were rolling back in her head and her lips were turning purple and I couldn't feel a pulse and I said, 'Teagan, it's mommy. Stay with me.'
"...It was the worst day of my life. I can't believe she's alive. I'm so glad she's alive."
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The part that stood out on this story is the mechanics of the ride had not been replaced over 8 years and had become rusted to the point that certain parts could not move. Makes you wonder just how safe you are when you put yourself in the hands of others.
Deadly Rides At Amusement Parks
I want to believe this roller coaster was one of those for toddlers and this is to prove that those sort of rides are not suitable for young children. How sad.
QUOTE NORRIDGE, I'll. -- A 3-year-old boy died Saturday after falling out of a roller coaster at a suburban Chicago amusement park, police said.
The boy was sitting near the front of the Python Pit roller coaster at the Go Bananas amusement park when he got underneath the ride's safety bar, Norridge Police Chief James Jobe said. He suffered head injuries in what Jobe described as "a tragic accident."
The boy was on the ride with his twin brother when he fell out of the coaster while it was moving, Jobe said. The Cook County medical examiner's office said the boy died at the park. Police said a state inspector was at the scene.
A man who answered the phone at the amusement park on Sunday morning and identified himself as the general manager but wouldn't give his name said the park is cooperating with investigators. Source 1
The boy was sitting near the front of the Python Pit roller coaster at the Go Bananas amusement park when he got underneath the ride's safety bar, Norridge Police Chief James Jobe said. He suffered head injuries in what Jobe described as "a tragic accident."
The boy was on the ride with his twin brother when he fell out of the coaster while it was moving, Jobe said. The Cook County medical examiner's office said the boy died at the park. Police said a state inspector was at the scene.
A man who answered the phone at the amusement park on Sunday morning and identified himself as the general manager but wouldn't give his name said the park is cooperating with investigators. Source 1
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