![]() Since opening our first ride just over 15 years ago, Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park has delivered more than 10 million safe and enjoyable rides.”īeckley says the park has been working closely with OPS and “independent safety experts” to review the accident.Ĭoaster Studios filmed the Haunted MIne Drop in 2019 Courtesy Coaster StudiosĦ-year-old girl dies on amusement park ride in Colorado “Safety is, and always has been, our top priority. “There is no way we can imagine the pain of loss that the Estifanos family and their friends are experiencing,” Beckley’s statement read. Steve Beckley, founder of the park, said in a written statement to CNN that the owners, management and park itself were “heart-broken” by the accident. The ride is billed as the world’s first drop ride to go underground, according to the park website. The park has been operating for 15 years and the Haunted Mine Drop opened in 2017, the report said. The Haunted Mine Drop will be closed until OPS repermits the ride and the park receives a new certificate of inspection. The other was hired August 21 and received training the day after, the report said. One of the operators was hired July 9, but didn’t receive training until August 5. “Having multiple operators making decisions and participating at different steps within the ride cycle was unusual and took the focus away from passenger safety,” the report said. The Haunted Mine Drop is shown in this July 2017 file photo at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Estifanos was not restrained in the seat she became separated from her seat and fell to the bottom of the (Haunted Mine Drop) shaft, resulting in her death,” the report said. However, the report says, because neither of operators had received adequate training, the two operators kept incorrectly fastening the seat belt mechanism and launched the ride. The ride’s control system alerted operators to the seat belt issue and prevented them from dispatching the ride. Estifanos, a six-year old girl, sat down on the ride, operators did not notice she was sitting on top of both seat belts,” the report read. There are two seat belts for each passenger, but “when Ms. The ride carries six passengers at a time and “drops 110 feet into a shaft in the ground,” the report said. She got on the Haunted Mine Drop, a tower-style ride that “uses gravity to create a freefall,” the report said. Wongel Estifanos was on vacation with her family at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park on September 5, according to according to the Garfield County Coroner’s Office. ![]() ![]() A 6-year-old girl died on a free-fall ride at an amusement park in Colorado because she wasn’t buckled in, according to a report released Friday from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s Division of Oil and Public Safety (OPS). ![]()
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