ORLANDO - The Missouri family of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from the 430-foot tall Orlando FreeFall ride in ...
An Orange County jury decided Thursday evening that the manufacturer of the Orlando ride from which a 14-year-old plunged to ...
The incident occurred in March 2022 when 14-year-old Tyre Sampson fell to his death while riding the FreeFall drop tower ride.
The ride's coming down and I'm thankful for that, but my son's not coming back." The father of a friend who witnessed the accident told deputies that the teen appeared to fall out of his seat when ...
It didn’t have seat belts, something most drop rides have as an additional safety measure. Because of Sampson’s size, the ...
His size meant a shoulder harness did not lock properly. The ride did not have seat belts, something most drop rides have as an additional safety measure. Image: The Orlando Free Fall ride.
Surprisingly, it did not have seat belts, something which most drop rides have as an additional safety measure. Mr Sampson also weighed 173 kilograms, which exceeded the ride's 129-kilogram weight ...
The FreeFall — considered at the time the world’s tallest drop tower ride at 430 feet — had an overhead seat harness but no seatbelt, unlike most other such rides. That caused Tyre ...
On March 24, 2022, 14-year-old Sampson was riding what was once known as the world’s tallest free-standing drop tower ... out of his seat when plunging passengers on the FreeFall ride passed ...
A Florida jury has awarded $310m to the family of a 14-year-old who fell hundreds of feet to his death from an amusement park ...