14yo passes out, dies on R 'n' R Coaster in Paris

[Ghoulish Delight]

Story here

[MouseWife]

Aw, that is a sad way to end your day at the park.

I wonder if she was scared to ride it but did anyways? You know, someone so scared could give themselves a heart attack or maybe quit breathing out of fear.

I know people with bad hearts still go on rides with warnings but I think they aren't scared and that helps keep their hearts from giving them a problem, does this seem a possibility? I know my dad had a bad heart but he loved the Corkscrew @ Knotts'. All he had after was a big smile.

I doubt if the ride was anyway at fault. Very sad.

Did you see the link on the page about the firefighter ladders being too short to rescue the people on the roller coaster? How fortunate for those people that it was a power failure and that they had a back up generator.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Most of the time these turn out to be something like a latent brain aneurysm, pushed over the edge by the g-forces of the ride.

[innerSpaceman]

Wow, too bad he had to die so young ... and on the suckiest coaster in the known universe.

[Ghoulish Delight]

She.

[Snowflake]

Well this is very sad.
Poor kid, at least she left the planet in one of the happiest places on earth.
I hope that everything prior to the ride was awesome for her.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Well this is very sad.
Poor kid, at least she left the planet in one of the happiest places on earth.
I hope that everything prior to the ride was awesome for her.

my thoughts exactly.

wow...gone at 14. just when things are about to get really good

[Stan4dSteph]

At that age, my guess would be preexisting heart condition.

[Isaac]

Poor kid!

At first though, I thought she died on Indy or Space Mtn since writer named the wrong theme park & didn't correct himself til the end.

Sucks either way.

[Isaac]

Whoa ! Blast from the past! I found this article thanks to http://www.dlp-guidebook.de

June 29, 2006

Boy dies after riding Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at Disney-MGM Studios

Update: attraction has reopened the next morning and preliminary autopsy results indicate a pre-existing condition in the child.

The Orlando Sentinel has breaking news that a Boy, age 12, died after riding the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith at Disney-MGM Studios today. Local6.com is reporting the child complained of being ill after experiencing the attraction and was being transported to a hospital, but died en route. However, CNN quotes a state official as saying the child was unresponsive when the car pulled into the station.

The boy was unresponsive when he was found in his seat at the end of the Rock 'N' Roller Coaster ride, said Terry McElroy of the Florida Department of Agriculture, which regulates the industry.

An update from the Orlando Sentinel states a 911 call said the boy was unconscious and not breathing after the ride. So I'm guessing Local6 got some wrong information somewhere.
This marks the 3rd guest death in just over a year after experiencing a Walt Disney World attraction and the 7th since Christmas Season of 2004 (source, Orlando Sentinel).
Correction: no death was recorded in the 2000 incident. According to ThemeParkInsider there has been one previous major injury on Rock 'n' Roller Coaster in April of 2000. A 43 year old man suffered a brain injury.
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster opened at Disney-MGM Studios on July 30, 1999. The height requirement for Rock 'n' Roller Coaster is 48 inches. It features a a high-speed launch that goes from 0 to 57 mph in 2.8 seconds creating g-forces of between 4 to 5Gs during some of the attraction's corkscrews and loops.
According to Disney Rock 'n' Roller Coaster was operating as normal when the death occured. However, the attraction has been shut down for inspection and state agencies notified. More info as I can find it. My sympathies to the family of the child and to the cast members who witnessed the incident.