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Parents of Teen Who Died in Fall From Ride Awarded $310M
The 14-year-old from St. Louis died last month after falling from the 430-foot Free Fall ride. The suit brought by Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson accuses the defendants, including the construction ...
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Ocean Park's free fall ride The Abyss has received a new VR upgrade and it's even more thrilling and unexpected than ever
Free fall rides are scary enough when you can see what is around you - but what if you are sitting on a free fall ride, unaware of what is around you? Ocean Park launched the first ever Virtual ...
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Tyre Sampson: Parents of teenager who fell to his death from theme park ride awarded hundreds of millions of dollars
The ride did not have seat belts, something most drop rides have as an additional safety measure. Image: The Orlando Free Fall ride. Pic: AP Sampson, from St Louis, Missouri, died in March 2022 ...
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Jury awards $310 million to parents of teen killed in fall from Orlando amusement park ride
He died on March 24, 2022, after falling 70 feet (21 meters) from the Orlando Free Fall ride at Icon Park. The trial lasted only a day as Funtime never appeared in court to defend itself.
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach to revamp iconic ride and give it new name
Currently closed for the 2024 season, the free-fall ride is being reimagined and re-themed by the attraction's engineers and will reopen next year as the Launch Pad. With a space shuttle launcher ...