Autopsy Confirms Teen Killed On Florida Ride Exceeded Weight Limit

[Celerity]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/autopsy-tyre-sampson-orlando-freefall-drop-tower_n_62a8d9a6e4b06594c1cefa17

A 14-year-old boy who fell from a 430-foot amusement park ride in Florida earlier this year was 96 pounds over the ride’s recommended weight limit and died from blunt force trauma, according to an autopsy report.

Tyre Sampson was 6-foot-2 and weighed 383 pounds when he fell to his death while riding the FreeFall drop-tower ride in Orlando on March 24, according to the Orange County Medical Examiner’s report released Monday.

The ride, which towered higher than the Statue of Liberty, had a recommended maximum weight of 287 pounds, according to a ride manual previously released by the state’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, though there have been questions as to whether this weight limit was publicly posted.

The middle schooler’s manner of death was ruled accidental. He sustained blunt force injuries to the head and neck and blunt force injuries of the torso, including internal lacerations to his spleen, stomach and liver, according to the medical examiner’s report obtained by HuffPost.

[maxsolomon]

1. So, he shouldn't have been allowed on the ride.

The (probable) teens monitoring who rides the ride are usually just looking for kids who are under-height.

Awful way to go.

[TheRealNorth]

2. Lovely

You would think that ride makers would make them sturdy enough that you wouldn't have to worry about the riders weight. But now I suppose there will have to be a scale next to the height ruler whenever you go on a ride.

[BlackSkimmer]

3. No surprise there.

It was obvious. Poor kid.

[Sympthsical]

4. The harness was obviously not secure

It was nowhere close to being enough to secure him. It was a foot higher than everyone else's because his size wouldn't allow it to be brought down to his lap. How the ride operators didn't take one look at that and go, "Newp!" is beyond me. Green light or not, one glance should've been enough.

[samnsara]

5. the video of the fall shows he was nearly to the bottom of the ride when he fell...

..only saving grace was he didnt fall the entire 430 ft and didnt have to experience the horror of the entire fall....as he landed so quickly after he was ejected.

SO PREVENTABLE!!

[Deuxcents]

6. This was terrible. I have questions about a 14 yo weighing 383 pounds

I have lots of questions..

[ecstatic]

7. omg. So tragic and horrific. nt