Colorado jury awards $205 million after young girl killed on theme park ride
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A Colorado jury ordered a local theme park and others to pay $ 205 million to a 6 -year -old girl who fell from one journey to death more than 100 meters.
The decision, which was published at the Garfield District Court on Friday, is among the biggest false death awards for a single plaintiff in the state history.
Wonggel Estikanos from Colorado Springs was visiting Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park with his family during the weekend of the Labor Day in 2021, when the tragedy hit the hairdry drop.
Reviewed by Fox News Digital, research documents show that Estianos was not placed towards his seat before driving.
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Wongel Esfanos, Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park fell from a journey after a tragically died. (Rahel Esfanos and Estikanos Dagne)
Instead, he sat on the still chased restrictions left by a previous rider. Although a warning alarm was heard, an operator exceeded the system and started driving according to the documents.
The first drop driving of the species to immerse the raids into the underground, the Panel Mine Drop left passengers in a dark shaft of 110 feet. The riders would sit together in a dim room in a bench -like seat.
After fixing with the seat belts, the lights would go out and the attraction would simulate a ghost presence that falls down in the total darkness.
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The Panel Mine Drop is shown in this July 2017 file photo at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Glenwood Springs. (Chelsea Self/Glenwood Springs Post Independent AP, via file
Free decline ended with shining lanterns that illuminate the mineral walls before the riders were brought back to the loading platform.
Following the 2021 incident, the perili mine drop was closed permanently.
“Glenwood Caverns rejected the mistake for the death of Wongel, who left ten stories from a journey to death for four years. Wongel’s parents took this case to prove what happened and try to save others.”
According to the court documents, the family’s 2022 case claimed that not only operator negligence, but also Glenwood caves ignored the repeated customer complaints about the insecure applications in driving.
Inspectors also concluded that more than one personnel error led to the death of Estifanos and not to prepare the seat belts before the entry started.
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Wongel Esfanos left 10 times his death to a journey in Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park. (Rahel Esfanos and Estikanos Dagne)
Glenwood Caverns Marketing Director Kimberly Marcum said in a statement that the defendant Socaus Eagle Inc. “produced the hairdy mine drop with a defective restriction system causing this heartbreaking accident,” he said.
Marcum also said that the manufacturer has safely approved the charm despite a faulty restriction system.
“Our hearts are going to the Estifanos family, Marc Marcum said, Glenwood Caverns said,” We can continue to work, to continue to work, to serve our guests and to continue to return to the community. “
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Prosecutors refused to make criminal charges by referring to the difficulties to prove man -killing against Glenwood Caves, but the civil hearing gave the day to Estifanos’ family in court.
“During this long hearing, they grateful to the people of Garfield County for being very kind to them.”
FOX News Digital also contacted the Soaring Eagle Inc for comment, but did not return.
