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According to the lawsuit, the ride was the world’s tallest free-standing drop tower at 430 feet. Once the ride reached the top, it tilted forward 30 degrees and fell several hundred feet at ...
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 ride over two years ago.. The sum was awarded to the parents of Tyre ...
The family of Tyre Sampson, a 14-year-old who died after falling from an Orlando, Fla. amusement park ride in 2022, has been awarded $310 million.. Sampson, of St. Louis County, Mo., was visiting ...
In 2007, a Souplantation restaurant in Orange County, California, was linked to an outbreak of E. coli. [13] The restaurant closed temporarily while authorities investigated the outbreak. [14] In October 2016, Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp, the owner/operator of Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
A drop tower is a type of amusement park ride incorporating a central tower structure with one or more gondolas attached. In a typical modern configuration, each gondola carrying riders is lifted to the top of the tower and then released to free fall back down to ground level.
Power Tower at Cedar Point is a multi-tower attraction featuring a pair of Space Shot rides and a pair of Turbo Drop rides, arranged in a square-footprint with a crowning marquee and crisscrossed arches joining the four rides at their peaks. Power Tower is the only four-towered drop tower ride in the world to date, devoting two towers to each ...
A Missouri teen visiting an Orlando theme park died from blunt force trauma after he fell more than 70 stories from an amusement park ride, according to the newly released autopsy report.
Kings Island’s tower is measured as the tallest in the world, while Kings Dominion's tower utilizes brakes positioned closer to the ground, producing a longer drop than the tower at Kings Island. The Kings Island variant also spins on the way up, giving riders a view of the whole park.