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Couple Saves Terrified Girl On Roller Coaster With 205-Foot Drop After Her Seat Belt Pops Open
A real-life nightmare unfolded right in the middle of a roller coaster when a young girl realized her seat belt came undone.
A Missouri couple recalled the girl’s “blood-curdling scream” coming from behind them as they narrated the horror of trying to keep her alive.
“This is what nightmares are made of! How scary!!!” one commented online.
Highlights
- A real-life nightmare unfolded right in the middle of a roller coaster when a young girl realized her seat belt came undone.
- The incident unfolded on the Mamba roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City.
- A Missouri couple sitting in front of the girl recalled her “blood-curdling scream.”
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A real-life nightmare unfolded right in the middle of a roller coaster when a young girl realized her seat belt came undone
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Chris and Cassie Evans were enjoying an outing at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City on October 11, the day of the incident.
They were riding on the Mamba roller coaster, the tallest ride in the amusement park that includes a 205-foot drop, when they heard a young girl screaming behind them.
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“We get on the roller coaster and the very first hill, the girl sitting behind my wife just lets out this blood-curdling scream, like I’ve never heard before,” Chris recalled to Fox 8.
“I assumed it was her first time on the ride, but then she said her seat belt came undone,” he added.
Chris and Cassie Evans said the terrifying incident unfolded at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City
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Chris and Cassie instinctively turned around and did all they could to hold the girl down.
“She is holding on to her friend next to her for dear life. And you can just see the sheer panic in her face,” the husband said.
Luckily, the couple were fairly familiar with the ride from past visits and knew when to expect the turns and dips.
So for the rest of the 205-foot-tall roller coaster, the Evins couple held the terrified girl down.
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“I said, ‘Look, you’re going to make it through the rest of this ride. We’re not going to let you go,’” the husband said.
As the ride reached speeds of 75 mph, Chris and Cassie reached behind them and pushed the girl down so she wouldn’t fall out.
“I had looped my arm underneath her lap bar, which had a pretty big gap between her and the lap bar. So at this point, I’m seeing a huge space, no seat belt,” Chris said.
The Missouri couple did everything they could to hold the girl down in her seat
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“I looped my arm underneath the lap bar, and I grabbed a hold of her wrist,” he continued. “My wife was pushing down on her legs.”
Chris said after each time they went to the top, he could recognize when the ride would lift occupants off their seat.
“So I kind of shifted our positions to, instead of hold her, to push down on her whole body to keep her from coming out of the seat while we’re going over those hills,” he said.
“72 miles an hour, holding onto somebody. It’s terrifying,” added Cassie.
Image credits: rollercoasterphilosophy / flickr (not the actual photo)
The ride came to an end with the girl safe and secure in her seat, owing to the efforts of the Missouri couple.
“My whole thought after the incident is, what if it had been somebody else in our seats? What if it was others, her friends?” Chris said.
He feared a “drastically different outcome” if they weren’t in the seats right in front of the girl.
“The scream that she screamed. I had never heard anything like that before in my entire life,” Cassie recalled
Meanwhile, Cassie was visibly emotional as she recalled the “terrifying” experience to ABC 7.
“The scream that she screamed. I had never heard anything like that before in my entire life,” she said.
The Evins said they reported the incident to the ride’s supervisor once they got off.
But “it just felt like the staff just didn’t care,” Cassie told WANE 15.
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The mother, who has four children of her own, said she was hesitant to ride the Mamba again, especially after a similar incident took place the very next day.
Another guest faced a similar issue and yelled that her son’s seat belt wasn’t securely locked as the ride began its first climb. The staff then stopped the ride and fastened the twisted and loose seat belt.
“We probably won’t go back for a while,” Cassie admitted. “We need to see the change, and once we see that change, I will be comfortable taking my four children, who I am not comfortable taking currently.”
The ride was recently closed for inspection and re-opened after repairs
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The Mamba reportedly underwent an inspection in April this year, according to the Missouri Department of Public Safety. But an on-the-spot inspection on October 30 led to the ride being shut down and reinspected later the same day.
The ride was approved to operate again after repairs.
Six Flags, the company that owns Worlds of Fun, said their “top priority” was the safety of their guests and staff members.
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“Following the report of a guest concern on the ride earlier this month, our team immediately closed the ride and completed a thorough inspection before reopening it that evening,” the company said in a statement.
They said the Mamba includes a “multi-layered restraint system,” and the ride underwent a “comprehensive safety review.”
“We have implemented modifications requested by the Fire Marshall to ensure it meets or exceeds all applicable safety standards before it reopens to guests this evening,” the statement added.
Netizens found the incident terrifying and expressed concern
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