Parents of boy killed on Florida amusement park ride file wrongful death lawsuit.
"Tyre had a long and prosperous life in front of him that was cut short by this tragic event," the lawsuit states, adding that the teenager was an honor student and football player at his school in St. Louis.
The report showed that the operator of the FreeFall ride, which is the world's tallest free-standing drop tower at a height of 430 feet,"made manual adjustments to the ride resulting in it being unsafe." Nikki Fried, the Florida commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, said the adjustment by the individual operator, who was not identified in the report, enabled the FreeFall's sensor lights to illuminate,"improperly satisfying" the ride's electronic safety mechanisms and enabling the ride to operate"even though Mr. Sampson was not properly secured in his seat."for the new ride was done in December and no deficiencies were found.
The state investigation determined that the"normal" restraint opening for seats on the FreeFall ride was 3.33 inches. Sampson’s seat was adjusted before the ride started to an opening of 7.19 inches, the investigation found. The lawsuit alleges that ICON Park and The SlingShot Group"knew or should have known" from its own tests that riders of the FreeFall would be"subject to unreasonably dangerous and foreseeable risks, and that serious injury and death of the occupants in the ride could result."
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