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SIX FLAGS HORROR
GIRL'S LEGS SEVERED ON RIDE
Post Wire Services
June 22, 2007 -- A teenage girl's legs were severed above the ankle
while on a thrill ride at a popular amusement park yesterday, park
officials said.
The accident happened around 4:45 p.m. on the Superman Tower of
Power at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, said Six Flags spokeswoman
Wendy Goldberg.
A witness, Chris Dinnette, was riding one car over from the girl
who was hurt. He told NBC affiliate WAVE he heard what he thought
were screams of excitement. But then he saw a cable "come back and
hit a lot of people" and realized he was hearing screams of
horror.
The girl, 13, was taken to University Hospital. There was no
immediate word on her condition.
The ride lifts passengers 177 feet straight up, then drops 154
feet, reaching a speed of 54 mph, according to the park's Web
site.
But riders say they saw a cable snap on the platform as the ride
reached the top. It then seemed to snap again on the way
down.
"As the ride came down, the wire swung left, struck the young lady
on the back side of my children," said Chris Williams, whose
daughter had traded seats with the 13-year-old.
Once it reached the ground, Treva Smith raced to the ride to find
members of her group who had been on it.
"When I got up there, the lady, she was just sitting there and she
didn't have no legs," Smith said.
"She didn't have no legs at all. She was just calm, probably in
shock from everything."
State officials immediately closed the ride and were conducting an
investigation into what caused the accident. The ride was shut down
indefinitely. The rest of the park remained open.
Investigators returned to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom to examine the
Superman Tower of Power ride, said Bill Clary, a spokesman for the
Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
The Agriculture Department is responsible for inspecting amusement
park rides in Kentucky.
"We don't know the cause and we may never know the cause,
honestly," Clary said.
