Tourist Accidents &Amp; Injuries | InjuryBoard Orlando

Dozens of spectators at Wrestlemania 24 were injured when the final fireworks display of the night accidentally shot into the crowd. At the conclusion of the show at the Citrus Bowl, one of the lines shooting fireworks broke and went into the crowd, burning several people. Although most of the injuries were minor ones, one person had to be transported to the hospital to treat his burns. This...

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Since the full moon had begun to wane, there had to be some other external force effecting air travel this week. Here are the headlines from msnbc.com yesterday:Piece of airliner dislodges... hits passenger window; Pilot's gun fires on US Airways jet; and 747 blows 4 tires, aborts takeoff from LAXThe first incident involved a US Air Boeing 757 traveling from Orlando to Philly. A piece of the...

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A female tourist was hurt at Disney's Animal Kingdom when the vehicle she was riding in caught fire. On Sunday, February 10 between 3 and 4 pm the fire started near the front of the truck. Officials say an engine hose failure caused the fire and the woman had to be transported to the hospital when she hurt her knee jumping out of the truck. Thankfully, the fire was put out early on and the...

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There were four serious tourist injuries in the last 3 months of 2007 according to state regulators. In addition to a widely reported death which occurred on Animal Kingdom's Expedition Everest ride, the Orlando Sentinel reports the other incidents were: a 34-year-old woman broke a vertebra in her lower back on Universal Studios' Revenge of the Mummy ride on Nov. 18; an 81-year-old woman...

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A 44-year-old Florida man died today after riding a roller coaster at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park. The incident happened on a ride called the Expedition Everest roller coaster. The ride passenger was seen unconscious in a photo taken while he was on the ride. He was unconscious when the ride reached the unloading area.While this may have been a natural occurrence, if it was the result...

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A Disney employee who fell from a ride platform at Disney's Animal Kingdom last weekend has died. The sixty-three year old victim was an attendant on the Primeval Whirl when she stepped into the restricted area and was hit by a moving car. The impact of that crash caused her to fall and hit her head. She is the first Disney employee to die since a man playing Pluto was run over during a parade...

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A tourist who slipped outside a restaurant at Disney's Magic Kingdom died. The 72 year old man, who remains unidentified, was enjoying a fun day at the theme park when he fell. He was rushed to the hospital and died the next day. With theme park tickets as high as they are, a trip to the theme park should be a safe and fun time for a family. Theme parks owe a duty to tourists to maintain a...

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In the near future The United States House of Representatives is voting on proposed laws to reauthorize the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to oversee theme parks and ride safety. They seek to correct a 1981 loophole freeing theme parks and their rides from federal safety regulation and review. As we know from this blog the state of Florida also exempts theme parks from most safety...

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Believe it or not the big three theme parks are virtually exempt from the safety and injury reporting standards applicable to amusement park rides in Florida. See for yourself at Florida Statutes Section 616.242. Why should Disney, Sea World and Universal Studios be held to lower standards of safety and government oversight than the County Fair? We need accountability for injuries to apply to...

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A young girl was killed and her teenage sister was seriously hurt in a parasailing crash last month in Florida. In the last four years in Florida there have been over 12 reported deaths from parasail crashes and who knows how many serious injuries. Despite these dangers Florida has no parasail regulation and no insurance requirements. There is no wonder that so many are being hurt from...

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Today Universal Studios Hollywood has now joined Universal Studios Orlando in closing down the Back to the Future ride at the theme park. The Orlando Universal Studios ride closed down on March 30, 2007. It is interesting to note that this ride is the subject of a recent law opinion related to allegations of injury on the ride. The case is called Universal City Development v. Williams and...

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A self described "pro-police conservative" decorated Navy Veteran and engineer flipped off a cop in Alabama. He apologized to the Cop but that was not enough. He was arrested apparently on the mistaken basis that it is illegal to bird a cop. Because Alabama is part of the U.S.A. and not Red China the man was acquitted of all charges. The cop allegedly embellished the facts to...

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According to the Orlando Sentinel, a college student visiting from Georgia was lying on the beach on July 3, 2006. A Volusia County Beach Patrolman,44 year-old Robert Augustynowski, was distracted by swimmers heading toward the ocean's rip current. He did not see the victim lying on her beach towel and ran over her with his Dodge pickup truck. The victim received extensive injuries to her...

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The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the the 15 year-old girl from the Ocala area who was injured in the parasailing accident over the week-end died early Sunday evening. The young teen, who would have been 16 on Sunday, was removed from life-support and her parents donated her organs to save the lives of others.As more details became available, it was noted that the National Weather...

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Two teenage sisters vacationing from Ocala were severly hurt in a frightening parasailing accident on Pompano Beach. The skies were overcast when they took off for what they surely thought would be an exciting, but safe, parasailing ride. When the wind started gusting, the driver of the boat headed back towards the shoreline. Something went terribly wrong when a gust of wind blew the pair...

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