http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-six-flags-texas-death-20130720,0,6973213.story
Although this event occurred quite awhile ago, I felt compelled to write about this because of this controversial issue. Reading through this article was quite horrifying and depressing.
This accident occurred at approximately 6:30 p.m. at the Six Flags Over Texas park in Arlington. A woman tumbled to her death after not being securely strapped onto the ride.
The author of this article seemed to have taken different sources such as Carmen Brown of Arlington, a bystander as well as John Putman who was also waiting in line. These various sources increase the accuracy of the article and give several different point of views.
The article stated that someone had heard someone screaming, “My mom! My mom! Let us out, we need to go get her!”. This was such a heartbreaking thing to read because if that person was indeed related to her, it would have been very traumatizing to watch her plunge to her death. It would have been more helpful if the article included who the woman was with to identify if the person who was screaming in line was indeed a companion of hers.
It is obvious that this specific amusement park has an inadequate staff member who had no consideration for others. But this article made me wonder if the employee was prejudice towards larger peoples or if they genuinely believed the the woman was strapped correctly in her seat. I’ve read many other cases where employees have allegedly treated fat people differently than others (Brandy Melville http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p0t4Rze_O8).
In all, this woman was so unfortunate to have been in this position and if that person who did not secure her seat belt correctly had done it out of pure stupidity or just inconsideration, there is not much to do now but to mourn the woman’s death and to improve ride safety.
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