What Really Happened on New Texas Giant at Six Flags Over Texas July 19th 2013? 

One would think that a third-party independent reviewer would be allowed to investigate something like this. Without it, it would appear to be the fox guarding the hen house.

Amazed that a full investigative report was never released. Even if state law doesn't require it, it's in the industry's best interests to fully lay out and examine the circumstances of the accident, the probable causes, and recommendations to prevent something similar from happening in the future. Liability is small peanuts compared to the learning that such a report could give.

This has got to be the most detailed video on this accident. I'm honestly happy that this has seatbelts. Not because I'm scared, (i've ridden NTG close to 200 times) but because they are needed to make sure that something like this *never* happens again.

I live in Arlington only about 20 minutes away from Six Flags and I remember when this happened. It was wall to wall coverage on the local news... so sad for the family. 😕 Edited to add I don't go to Six Flags anymore (I'm not a thrill ride person and have back issues that wouldn't let me safely ride anyway) so I'm surprised to hear there were no Spanish instructions. A lot of signage in stores around here will often have Spanish in smaller print underneath the English because it IS common for both languages to be spoken here in North Central Texas and only more and more common the further south toward the border you get. It's just part of the culture here.

Can you imagine having to finish the ride after having just watched someone get thrown from it? Awful.

This was far more disturbing than I could’ve expected. May she rest in peace.

Six Flags: "Definitely no seat belts! Don't even think about it!" Rider: Six Flags: "Why didn't you put seat belts on, Gerstlauer??? This is all your fault!"

You know it’s a good day when a new What Really Happened video comes out

I've heard this story covered before, but your version goes into much greater detail and focuses on the wrong doing of the coaster and parks, rather than just the victim. Thank you for this. There was so much done wrong here. Her death was preventable.

That poor woman, my heart goes out to her. She only wanted to have a nice day at a local theme park and it's completely heartbreaking that she lost her life over that.

The poor ride operator who has to witness this by being the one to go and look.

As horrific as this accident was, I appreciate you taking the time and explaining the details of the accident as I learned quite a bit from watching this. The day the accident happened, I was working and got a call from ABC News and Diane Swayer's producers who asked if they could use my footage of NTG for a breaking news story involving an accident. I asked what had happened as this was the first time I had heard the news. I told them I would call them back as I had to look up the news myself. I couldn't find much but I did agree to let them use the footage. They never returned my call back. Perhaps it was for the better. There was another accident (non-fatal) that took place that very same day at another park, yet the news of it wasn't as noticed as the NTG accident, probably covering up a lot of bad press for the park.

Honestly wild that there weren't any Spanish warnings in Texas of all places

I have 3 children that worked at this park, including the Giant. We were also there the day it happened and had gotten off the ride just before. The staff should’ve never let that rider on due to her weight which is now strictly enforced and yes, a seatbelt would’ve possibly prevented her from falling.

the walk through described at 6:38... imagine being a nineteen year old and getting told at work to go walk and find a dead body

Let’s be honest here. The presence of a seatbelt would not have stopped this accident from happening. If the seat sensor failed, and it showed that the restraint was locked, the ride operators shouldn’t be held at fault, either. The blame falls on either Gerstlauer’s train design (assuming it was a design flaw) or bad maintenance by Six Flags.

To this day, NTG ride operators have a wooden block with a handle that they physically attempt to insert between the lap bar, and the seat to make sure that the restraints are at the minimum locking requirement. Just like the more recent drop tower in Orlando, it might be hard to make the “Walkashame “off of a ride when you’re too fat, but that still beats being bludgeoned to death by gravity.

This seems similar to the Icon Park drop tower accident in some ways: seems to me the thing that killed the victim in both cases was that the restraint sensors showed green and allowed the ride to dispatch, when the restraint was in a position that could not protect the rider. Yes, the operator could have decided not to believe the indicator and refused to dispatch, but the situation was a death trap to begin with. The difference with Icon Park was that the restraint had been intentionally modified, which seems not to have happened here. But I suppose we don't know if it was fundamentally a design flaw or a maintenance problem. It's remarkable to me that this accident on RMC's very first coaster did not kill RMC's coaster business in the cradle, but the fact that Gerstlauer and not RMC made the trains probably helped with that. (It didn't destroy Gerstlauer's business either, but Six Flags never worked with them after that.)

I would hate to be the attendant that had a bad gut feeling, but trusted the systems anyway. I would feel so guilty. EDIT: I actually had an experience sorta like this. I was a much larger person when I was younger, and the attendant, thank fuck, had a bad feeling and kicked me off superman in six flags buffalo. I was offended. I was upset. But I can't help but think now that maybe they saved my life. ETA: Fat shaming is bad and people who do it should feel bad. But this is a safety issue with a massive steel train travelling at very fast speeds. Unfortunately, some thrill rides can't be designed with every size in mind.

I remember going to over Texas in 2015 for the first time and being scared to go on anything extreme due to this accident Fortunately thanks to your videos and me being more brave, I am now able to ride new Texas giant and other extreme rides

I feel like this is such an improvement over the previous version from what I remember, much more fair and objective, and covers more details.

I was one of the final riders of the OG Texas Giant. I went to Six Flags in the spring as part of my senior class trip and wanted to ride the Giant one last time as I’d ridden it before when I was a young child. And yeah, it was one hell of a rough ride on those wooden tracks. I got battered and thrown back-and-forth in my seat and exited the ride with sore hips. But dear GOD was it exhilarating to take part in. Felt like a ride that separated the boys from the men with how rough and rickety it was. I’ll miss the OG Texas Giant, but it was a good call to shut it down and renovate it.

I remember this when it happened. The woman should never have been allowed to ride. I can't find the stats now, but I remember reading she was under 5 feet and morbidly obese. She also told the workers she didn't feel secured in the seat and they dismissed her. You can google a pic of her. I cannot imagine the terror she felt, or the I believe young boy (no releation) who was seated with her. Per the police report, I downloaded from Scribd: " I observed multiple areas of human tissue and other bodily fluids. I proceeded past this area into the fenced in area which led underneath the ride's tracks. In this area immediatelyunderneath the tracks, I noticed various internal organs that had been dispersed throughout. After passing from the north side of the tracks to the south side, I looked on top of the corrugated metal tunnel and observed the body of the decedent. The top portion of the victim was hanging off of the tunnel structure while her lower extremities were wrapped around a wooden support beam."

I'm more angry that Texas allows for silence on the park side. No report needs to be made public. While 1 million sounds great at least half of that goes to the attorney immediately. Then costs for the trial are taken out on top of that. The family maybe received a few hundred thousand at most for watching their loved one die so tragically and deal with it all being so public to boot. Just a sad tragedy all around.

This is my home park and I was so dumbfounded when this happened since the ride was basically new. Thank you for the coverage hopefully safety has improved

Having recently become obsessed with aviation, I can see how theme parks and those who design coasters and other rides, could take a few pages out of the aviation how-to book, basically. In aviation, there is so much redundancy. This is so that if one thing fails, the plane can still fly because they have backups (and sometimes backups to the backups). When you said that Six Flags did not want seat belts and wanted to rely on the sensors, I already knew it was going to be a problem. Planes have various different sensors, to help tell the pilots their airspeed, their altitude, etc. Because sensors can become faulty, there is always more than one sensor relaying the same info, so if one fails, they still have another sensor that can give them reliable information. Six Flags relying on (presumably) one sensor per restraint AND not having a seat belt as a backup just in case, was really just an accident waiting to happen. Another thing about aviation, though....there's a "no fault" type of mentality, in most places. Instead of placing blame, the goal is to get to the bottom of what and why something happened so it can be prevented in the future. Typically, there's more than just one cause to an accident; it's usually a bunch of things that add up. And I think the same applies here, to these sort of ride accidents. But I think, they could do well to adopt aviation's "no fault" mentality...i.e. focus more on making things safer instead of worrying about placing blame, and just release full investigation reports afterward because that can help rides elsewhere to be safer, also.

This poor woman and her family. Imagine going to have a good time with your family only to see your family member die in front of you in one of the worst ways possible. Absolutely heartbreaking 💔💔

This is why i always want a good old fashioned seatbelt as a back up on every coaster

I remember riding this coaster a few years before the accident. I was seated next to my dad and he was a lot bigger than me, there was probably a good six inches between my thighs and the restraining bar. It took everything I had not to fly out on the first hill. It was one of the most terrifying experiences I ever had on a coaster.

As someone who rode the old Texas Giant religiously. It’s absolutely nuts that something like this didn’t occur during its time. I recall many times wondering if I was about to die riding on the back of the ride. It’s nuts to me that it happened after the renovation.

This is the best and most accurate telling of this event. Thank you for representing everyone fairly in this. It was a hard day for everyone involved. I hope the esparza family is doing well💙

I was at the baseball game during this. I remember seeing the helicopters while the game was going. They flew near us a couple times. We were supposed to go see Bridget Medler the next day at Six Flags but it was cancelled due to this accident. We didn’t know what was going on until the next morning when it was all over the news. It was such a sad day and I was heartbroken to hear of what happened.

For anyone saying this ride is fat shaming, it isn't I rode this ride once on vacation and can tell you at 90-something pounds I felt like I was going to fall out and die myself and this happened after the accident occurred all the stuff added is probably the only reason I'm still here. This ride isn't meant for anyone on either side of the extreme weight wise point blank period

I’m from Arlington, I was 9 when this happened. I remember this reinforced my horrible fear of rollercoasters, which I’m still getting over. Still never rode the Giant.

She was too big for the ride and slid out. They should have just hurt her feelings and told she's to big, she would still be alive.

My analysis of who is to blame is this. Six Flags specifically requested that the ride vehicles not have seatbelts which would have worked as a secondary restraint and possibly could have prevented the accident. Six Flags over Texas was located in an area where Spanish is commonly spoken and neglected to accommodate for Spanish speaking guests by providing safety instructions in Spanish. The ride operators were poorly trained and should not have let the ride dispatch if the employee checking restraints had doubts about the safety of a rider’s restraints. Six Flags neglected to provide the test seat for riders to determine if they could fit. The manufacturer could have recommended Six Flags include the seatbelts or required it for ride safety, because its more likely for sensors to malfunction than a seatbelt. In the end I think the blame goes to Six Flags for excessive negligence.

Being a former ride op @ AstroWorld + coaster enthusiast. Many ppl. asked my opinion of the accident prior to the investigation. My response was the rider was to large to take the ride safely. I've been to IAAPA Expo many times around the US. I'm 5'-8" but now exceed 300 lbs. A coaster with 3-6g force would put excessive force on the restraints putting ME + others in jeopardy. Redundancy at that speed is a MUST! I have gotten off of rides I felt unsafe in prior to dispatch. SF & Gerstlaurer played blame game. SF threw G under the bus. Like with an air crash., Operator/manufacturer will often SHARE blame. This is NOT the only time SF messed UP! It's been on many rides + park ventures + bankruptcy .

Very sad and unfortunate. May she Rest In Peace. I think that both this and the drop tower incident gives all the justification needed for Cedar fair adding seatbelts when other chains may opt not to on the same ride model. Roller coasters are among the safest recreational activities, but have somehow become the victim to propaganda and misinformation regarding safety, so going overboard with safety is a must, in my opinion.

Dude I just gotta let you know your videos are very straightforward and informative as opposed to overdramatized “top 10” roller coaster channels and stuff. Great work as always.

As someone who was a ride attendant, these ride attendants did not do their job correctly or properly, for that matter. They put this lady's lives at risk and just decided to go with it. Six Flags is honestly truly to blame for this because they didn't train their ride ops properly enough, and the fact that they blamed Gerstlauer for faulty train design while they didn't follow Gerstlauer's recommendations to put that test seat outside. Gerstlauer is a proven ride manufacturer and putting blame on them is ridiculous, and Six Flags should have just been honest about that. They even worked with Gerstlauer carefully to ensure that the train was safe, so the fact that they think the manufacturer should be blamed for their design is BS to me at least.

Fear of consequences from telling someone they're too big for the ride.... that was the ultimate cause.

Out of curiosity, do you think that accident reports should be made public in every state? Is there benefit to that, like having the public know if they are possibly putting themselves at more risk than they realized?

Now this is actually scary to think the restraint sensors could be faulty :x

I was in attendance at the park the weekend after the accident. I had been so excited to ride new Texas giant, but of course it was closed. I rode other rides that weekend, but I haven't ridden any since. When I had time to think about it, being a bigger gal myself and the rumor being that the guests size was why they were ejected, I was left with a real sense of mortality.

I remember this day so well. My cousin was walking over there to get in line and walked up on the chaos. She called me immediately after in shock.

i love your videos, dude. no sensationalism, just the facts

It's particularly tragic because they KNEW something was wrong before the train even launched

I rode the Texas Giant in '99, and it made my boyfriend get a nosebleed. It rattled riders around so aggressively.

I rode that ride a week before the accident… I’m so thankful for my life. I feel awful for that family who rode it.

I was working that day at Six Flags in First Aid. I was the paramedic that found the victim. Due to her adult children not speaking English proficiently, I wasn't sure if she was ejected accidentally, or if she had jumped out on purpose out of fear. (not that it mattered why she was ejected) Yes, she was practically torn in two. In my opinion, she was too fat to be on the ride. In my opinion, the restraint was resting on her belly or her breasts, not her lap, where it is supposed to be. So as the cars went down the first hill, she was already coming out, then flung off of the train on the second hill. Then she "plinko'd" through the supports, coming to rest on the corrugated metal roof of one of the tunnels.

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I will never understand why companies don't want every rollercoaster to have seatbelts in addition to lockbars. I guess it might ruin the "thrill aspect" for some people, but I'm a giant baby and hate the feeling of being on a rollercoaster and knowing that a flimsy hunk of metal that isn't even touching my body is the only thing keeping my skinny ass from going flying. Maybe I'm in the minority, though, lol. Edit: Also just want to mention that so many of these rollercoaster incidents would have been greatly reduced if there was an extra manual restraint, like a seatbelt, in place as backup for if the mechanical restraints fail. People would still probably get hurt but surely not as badly as being fully ejected.

This is a good video with lots of info, but didn't mention the probable, simple reason Rosa came out of her seat. She was exceptionally obese, and most of her torso was on top of the lap bar. The majority of her weight & bulk wasn't restrained. The strong negative Gs on the lower hill of the double up (immediately after the first drop) caused her to dislodge from her seat, and she left the car entering the high banked turn which follows.

I live near there and have been to that six flags many many times. this was a total shock for many locals

Thanks for sharing. What a horrible tragedy. A rider came to have fun and and a mistake caused a death. I'm 60yrs +, and I genuinely love roller-coasters! But, Safety First! Always! Sorry that you shared this tragedy, but thanks. J.

The reason? I called the reason out back when this incident occurred. The proof to my theorem only gets better now I've seen the amendments they made. The big reveal is at 9:41. My suspicion back then is that the bar was fitted to a secure position which was accepted by the park to allow larger guests to ride, a design that isn't often seen in European parks but is common in American parks due to regional size differences... Some parks have a larger persons seat or row on their trains that allow the restraints to be what looks like wide open. A possible occurrence on the red v blue train on specification. Going back to the point: when the bar was fitted it was to the woman's stomach and not her lap. After cresting the first drop, her stomach goes above the lap bar and thus leaves a ton of space and a little more than 'wiggle room'. After cresting the next hill, she is ejected whilst holding onto the restraint and therefore toppling her over onto her head and then later ejected from the laterals of the overbanked turn. And so you now have their new safety precautions. 1. A seat that should've been there in the first place since they already had it provided (I don't know why Six Flags couldn't be bothered to just quickly bolt it to the floor in the first place but whatever) in order for you to see if you're too large or not. 2. A sign that says how to use a lap bar if you're a larger person. 3. Measuring device so that if you are too large, the park can prove it and send you away. 4. Larger padding was put in place so that if you are too large and escape no.3 on the list, the damn thing won't lock for you now anyway so unlucky. 5. Shin guards, so that in the very rare event of this and almost into replication of the incident; it's so that she doesn't do that flip onto her head part before the ejection. The fact they added shin guards makes it so obviously clear to me that Gerstlauer had no malfunction whatsoever on their trains or restraints because otherwise this wouldn't be necessary whatsoever. 6. seatbelts... well this is an obvious 'well you said you didnt want them so you're the one to blame for that' upset for Six Flags in which they don't want blame for again. It's a horrible accident but I don't really think the park or Gerstlauer could ever even make a public comment saying 'well her fat folds fell out'. P.S. if you find this comment hateful/hurtful please address it as it is not meant as such. This comment is not designed to hurt the feelings of anyone with a large weight. It may seem harsh on what I report but from all evidence, this just is the case of this tragedy.

Thanks so much for these videos, I needed to write an essay so your videos really helped

I can’t believe that happened almost 10 years ago, I remember when that first happened like it was yesterday

I think I already knew most of what was in this video, but it's still a good video like the others. And while I like these types of videos, I would like it even better when you literally run out of serious accidents to put into these videos.

What's truly sad is that cases like this become more of a cover-your-butt and shift-the-blame attempt rather than actually a dispassionate and honest inquiry to find out what part of the safety-system failed. Sometimes an accident is NO ONE'S fault (lawyers and insurance companies don't want to hear that), although in this case it does seem like evidence might have been pointing toward certain decisions and possible issues.

Different park and coaster, but when I was little kid about 8 years old I went on my first big coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm. It was a wooden coaster, Ghostrider. It had these old, weathered padded lap bars, and I don’t remember there being seatbelts. When we loaded onto the train, I realized that my lap bar was loose and wasn’t locking. The attendant only really tapped the bars for everyone’s seat, not pushing and pulling. I was a socially anxious kid, so I had trouble speaking up about it despite my worries that it didn’t appear to be holding me in properly. My dad was next to me in the other seat, with a different lap bar. I told him about the lap bar, but honestly I don’t remember his reaction. I just remember him being excited to take me on my first real coaster. OH. ALSO. I was essentially tricked into going on it. He told me that the ride we were going on “wasn’t attached” to the big drop hill, that was a separate ride. Yeah, I was a gullible kid too. So when we started ascending that first hill, it sunk in that I’d been dooped. I was more terrified of the height than the lap bar at that point. Because once we dropped, I clung onto that damn thing like a life preserver. It bounced WAY more than it should’ve as the coaster crested over more hills. My ass left the seat multiple times, one of those times was distinctly more terrifying than the others. I was basically being ejected. But I clung onto that damn lap bar and kept my head down. I was a tiny kid but those overhead supports with warnings not to stand up made me believe I’d be thrown out and crashing right into one of em. Once the ride was over and we unloaded, I was still scared shitless, but on that day my inner thrill seeker was born. I still love coasters, going to theme parks to go on the crazy rides is one of the best times I have as an adult. But fuck man, when I think back to that first experience, knowing what I know now about coaster safety, I get chills. I was shaken around and so close to being popped right out of that seat like a damn tennis ball. That attendant couldn’t have done less to check our restraints. My dad was laughing and proud of himself for having tricked me onto that ride. And after the fact I laughed along with him and was glad he did. But now I just can’t imagine how he would’ve felt if I’d actually fallen out. Christ.

This is why I refuse to get on any ride that doesn’t have a seatbelt along with all the other restraints/harnesses. Malfunctions happen, especially with tech. Sometimes putting faith into ol’ reliable (older methods that have been around for over 50 years, tested and works no mechanically) adds that little extra sense of safety. Now of course… it wouldn’t save anyone from a total catastrophe if the case was total derailment or partial/full collapse of the structure, but that’s a risk we take. Best to reduce the risk by one less.

ok so i watched a different version of this previously and i live in texas so i remember this, lets just say she was way over the weight limit. yes rides have weight limits as well as height one of the operators didnt want her to go on as she was too big but since she was with her family they let her through and u can understand what happens when safety is ignored u f around u find out. her momentum was greater than her secureness resulting in her fat compressing and her slipping through the restraint, i dont remember ever going on the new version but i went on the old version over the years and the alst time i went on it in like 2009 is scared me so freaking bad from how unsafe it was i refused to go near it but it was scary and fun previously but it got to be scary and not fun u literally felt like it would break any second how much noise and how shaky it was from years of abuse

How absolutely horrifying. The trauma for everyone involved will be lifelong. Awful.

Considering where Arlington is, the fact that there was no Spanish signage is... exceedingly odd as Spanish speakers are a HUGE population in D-FW in general. But man, I remember hearing about this and knowing that my decision to ignore New Texas Giant was a good idea when it first opened. Not that I liked the original Texas Giant, either, since it was horrendously janky and screwed my back up every time. Also not the first time Six Flags over Texas has had some kind of issue with their coasters, I remember that when they opened The Titan there were SEVERAL reports of people passing out from the G Forces of the ride itself and that was a WHOLE ordeal. Also another ride that I rode once and went "I'm good, let's not do that again". Ugh.

this video made me remember the last time I road the new texas giant. I road before this happened I was maybe 11 to 12 years old. I remember complaining that my belt was super tight was we left the station. Then as we went dont the first drop my belt unlocked. I remember grabbing it and screaming at my dad it was unlocked. I came out of my chair on that drop If my dad hadn't thrown his arm across me when that turn hit I probably would have gotten thrown. After the first turn it relocked but it was lose enough that I could slip out of I wanted too. At the end I remember my dad saying that my belt unlocked and the platform worker denied it saying it wasn't possible for them to unlock mid ride. I'm 21 now and refuse to ride coasters anymore

Congrats ahead of time on 100k subs! Thank you very much for the uploads. Awesome videos

I was at six flags the day it happened. I had just gotten off the ride and was walking back with my cousin to ride again. It was terrifying, we didn’t see anything but we were ushered out and six flags was like a ghost town. My cousin and I never went back and haven’t visited since

I was there the following day, I had not heard the news before getting there. I remember finding out, and the ride operators on the Titan used foam spacers to check lap bar spacing.

i remember a ride on Nemesis, there was an obese woman trying to enter the seat, but no matter how hard the staff tried to staple her in, the restraint would not lock. she was then denied to ride. lap bar restraints though might fail to secure 'large" people because of all the soft body mass wiggling its way out due to the g-forces. dont know though if train manufacturers take that into account.

Ive ridden that same roller coaster in 1995 several times. It was very rough riding and I almost lost my glasses.

that summer, my family ended up going to disney and universal one month after it happened and i did not ride anything because i was so scared. being 10 yrs old at the time and from the dallas area, this accident really stuck with me

So almost every coaster fatality I've seen has had one common trait. Every victim has been very obese.

Please do more videos like this I heard about this it was all over the news here in Dallas Texas, RIP to the victim 🙏🏾

The issue was her size and thats the fact. I meant to say not really her fault. these ride operators need to do a girth measurement before loading. Its horrible what happened to her. No one deserves this. (Sorry for the initial typos)

That statement that "the red train is more accomodating to larger guests" is chilling after that Orlando drop tower last year.

As a kid growing up in Texas at the time I remember this story vividly. I had rode that ride for the first time a year or two before. Had me shook on roller coasters ever since.

this was more graphic and detailed than I heard before. wooww

No shoulder restraint going down a steep hill..that makes ton of sense

Both this accident and the one on shoot the rapids actually happened on the same evening

The one thing I like is that they looked around and fixed OTHER coasters that have the design flaw. It’s so common to get tunnel vision and focus only on the accident and not look at the bigger picture.

I’ve been riding the Texas Giant since its opening day in 1990 and there have always been announcements in the station in both Spanish and English.

You're very respectful, thank you

I local TV station was able to get the souvenir photo taken of that car on that ride. The guys in the front seat (unknowing what happened) were so excited and having a blast. You could see the empty third row, and everyone else on the train had a look of total shock on their face.

I used to love the old texas giant!!! I remember riding it like 3 times in a row and thinking "I'm totally going to die!" Especially when you saw it was built out of wood 😳

I wonder if you will ever cover ride accidents from Lake Compounce in CT. There have been several fatalities.

I think the blame on both the park/ride manufacturer and the woman. The ride needed a better sensor for the safety bar locking in place, as that seems to be the the piece of info that attendants fell back on in the case of uncertainty. It probably also would have been a good idea for a net of some kind over the tunnel where the woman landed (it probably wouldn't have saved her life, but it could at least have helped with retrieval). The ride could have used an emergency shut off that activated when the passenger was ejected too. However, the woman should not have been riding if she couldn't understand the operators' instructions because of a language barrier. It's not up to the operators to know every possible language a passenger could speak (especially if the operators are teenagers), and the responsibility falls on the passenger to ensure she had someone who could translate the instructions for her. She also shouldn't have been riding if her size have the attendants pause. I've been the bigger person on a ride before, and yeah, it's embarrassing to be asked not to ride due to your size, but the operators have a duty to keep riders safe. It's a better safe than sorry situation where if there was even the slightest concern, the rider should have been removed rather than allowed to ride

Remember this one all too well sadly. Was on this same ride hours before this tragedy happened.

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The amount of negligence, especially for safety, throughout the world is scary. Makes me hesitant to go anywhere or do anything anymore now that social media can give us the deets on every fatal or near fatal thing that's happened.

I am glad I found about it day after I went here.

I do remember hearing about this. I have been on that ride many times, and I was an obese person when doing so, with no ill effects. Sometimes accidents just happen. It’s tragic, but it happened.

The sign at 9:42 pretty much tells you exactly what happened. "anyone attempting to create space under their lap bar will be EJECTED from the park".... touche....

Sensors should never trump an eye test that something isn't safe.

I rode the Texas Giant at Fright fest back in October of 2022 and let me tell you they pushed the lap bar so far into my pelvis that it actually physically hurt. The ride is so rough which didn’t help considering how tight the restraint was on my pelvis

if you haven't heard the phrase "all regulation is written in blood", we need to know it lol. it's a statement which you should agree with. some states have dropped the ball in this area as we know. ride manufacturers are just as responsible. and the coaster industry is definitely one of the most careful industries, which i love. but we should still advocate for all of our rides to be as safe as possible so everyone can ride. i want everyone to feel safe on a ride. this applies not only to making sure ride manufacturers are top notch but also making sure ride attendants and staff are paid well. when people care about their job we are all safer

This coincides with the opening of Aquaman: Power Wave!

I was on this ride the night before. I remember being in line teasing my friend’s little cousin because she was afraid to ride. I was telling her how there were no seatbelts. Then when we got on, the workers didn’t do a good job checking our restraints at all. I was horrified to hear what had happened the very next day!

I'm telling ya, it's scary being a plus size rider. I've learned my lesson that if I really have to struggle to get the restraint down, then I shouldn't ride it.

I love the Texas Giant. I remember this like it was yesterday. I was so afraid to go back to six flags after that. The update to the ride was nice tho. It’s still scary AF. RIP to the lady.