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According to an autopsy report from the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office, a 14-year-old boy died of blunt force trauma to his head and body after falling to his death from a Florida amusement park ride in March.
Tyre Sampson passed away on March 24 after he fell from the Orlando Free Fall at ICON Park, which is billed as the “world’s tallest free-standing drop tower” that drops over 400 feet at a speed of more than 75 mph. The report stated that the adolescent, who participated in football in Missouri, was over 6 feet tall and weighed 383 pounds. The maintenance handbook states that the ride’s maximum passenger weight is 287 pounds.
Tyre sustained severe internal injuries in addition to facial fractures and abrasions, according to the chief medical examiner.
His demise was determined to be accidental.
According to Michael Haggard, an attorney for Tyre’s mother, Nekia Dodd, “no one could have survived this preventable fall from over a hundred feet in the air at that speed.” Tyre’s parents, who are each being represented by a different lawyer, have filed a wrongful death case against ICON Park, the ride’s operator, and the manufacturer, among others. Haggard said in a statement to The Post that “the postmortem report also reveals that Tyre was over 100 pounds over the limit of passenger weight allowed.” “This case’s negligence is beyond dispute.” A request for comment Tuesday afternoon was not immediately answered by Tyre’s father’s lawyer.
A teen was killed in a riding accident at a Florida amusement park.
Tyre’s father, Yarnell Sampson, stated to NBC station WESH earlier this year that he learned of his son’s passing after viewing a video of the accident on social media. He added, “It felt like somebody hit me so hard in the gut.” I just lost my breath.No weight limits were advertised at the ticket booth, according to the lawsuit, and no staff member informed the adolescent that he might have exceeded them.
Tyre was allegedly “ejected” from his seat and plunged “a hundred feet to his death” while on the trip.
The lawsuit states that “Tyre had a long and prosperous life in front of him that was cut short by this awful tragedy.”
In order for the ride to function with a larger opening between the seat and the safety strap, a seat sensor had been manually changed, according to forensic engineering company Quest Engineering & Failure Analysis, which discovered this in April. According to a story, tyres managed to squeeze through the opening during the journey. Tyre was “not properly fastened in his seat, principally due to the misadjustment of the harness proximity sensor,” according to the company, which the state contracted to look into the events leading to his death.
Electronic safety procedures
The study states that this modification “enabled both safety lights to activate, erroneously satisfying the ride’s electronic safety procedures and allowing the ride to begin even though the ride was unsafe.”Trevor Arnold, an attorney for the Slingshot Group, which owns and operates the Orlando Free Fall and its sibling attraction, the Orlando Slingshot, described the teen’s death as “a horrible accident” when the postmortem results were made public this past week.
“We keep in touch and work together with the Department of Agriculture and members of Tyre’s family.” “We are committed to collaborating with our politicians to implement long-lasting safety measures in the amusement park sector,” the statement from the executive said. A 6-year-old girl died after falling off a ride at an amusement park. Operators reportedly failed to notice that the woman was not belted.
According to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which keeps track of incidents involving amusement park rides, there were 12,400 injuries reported to hospital emergency rooms in 2020 and an average of 34,700 injuries related to amusement attractions, such as waterslides, from 2017 to 2019. This figure includes injuries that occurred while using rides at amusement parks. According to the commission, closures brought on by the coronavirus epidemic are likely to blame for the decline in 2020. According to the government, at least 15 fatalities have been linked to amusement park attractions since 2018.
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