ICON park accident: Autopsy reveals the cause of death of the teen who fell from a ride

• An autopsy has revealed the official cause of death of the teenager who fell from a ride at ICON Park.
• The accident at ICON Park was recorded in a chilling video that spread on social media.
• Tyre Sampson, just 14 years old, slipped out of his seat.

How did the tragic accident at ICON Park happen? The question has finally been answered. An autopsy revealed the official cause of death of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson who died when he fell from a ride in the popular amusement park located in Orlando, Florida.

The 14-year-old boy who died last March when he shot out of a free fall tower at ICON Park, weighed almost 100 pounds more than the ride’s weight limit, the autopsy revealed on Monday, June 13, according to EFE.

Autopsy reveals cause of death of teen who fell from ride

Tire Sampson, a native of Missouri, died in an accident, on March 25, after plummeting from an attraction called Orlando Free Fall, a 131-meter-high tower with a free fall of more than 120 km / h located in ICON Park, in the tourist district of Orlando, according to EFE.

The autopsy revealed that Sampson weighed 383 pounds (173 kilos) and was a little over 6 feet (1.83 meters) tall. The instruction and use manual of the manufacturer of the Orlando Free Fall, Funtime Thrill Rides, indicates that the maximum weight allowed on this ride is 286 pounds (130 kilograms), according to local outlet WKMG TV.

Forensic report indicates that the tragic fall in ICON Park was an accident

The coroner found that the teenager’s body had numerous fractures to the face, skull, ribs and legs, as well as lacerations to the face, stomach, arms and feet. The autopsy report stated that it was an accident and that Sampson died from “blunt force trauma” sustained in the fall at ICON Park.

Last April, the boy’s family sued ICON Park, Funtime Thrill Rides, and the company that operates it, Slingshot Group, for the deadly accident. The lawsuit, according to EFE, alleged that the operators of the ride should have known that its occupants were exposed to «excessively dangerous and foreseeable risks that could result in serious injury and death.»

Family sues all companies involved in deadly accident at ICON Park

The same lawsuit pointed out that the ride did not have seat belts and that the manufacturer and operator did not make notices about weight and height restrictions visible to the public, among other points, according to the outlet.

At a press conference last April, Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Nikki Fried said the investigation concluded that «the safety sensor in the seat was manually adjusted» to the boy’s large size, which allowed the opening of the harness to be almost twice normal.

Sampson’s seatbelt was manually adjusted

Everything seems to indicate that the operator of the attraction manually adjusted the opening of the harness and the seat sensor to accommodate the teenager’s size, according to the investigation by the engineering firm Quest Engineering, from Tallahassee, Florida.

The Orlando Free Fall ride has capacity for about 30 people, who are transported to the top of the tower and then released in a free fall of more than 75 miles per hour (120 km / h), according to the description on the park’s website cited by EFE. That ride was promoted as the tallest free fall tower in the world.

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