{"id":560,"date":"2010-08-11T17:04:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T23:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2010-08-11T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T23:04:54","slug":"girl-falls-40-feet-in-free-fall-ride-accident-in-wisconsin-dells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/girl-falls-40-feet-in-free-fall-ride-accident-in-wisconsin-dells.html","title":{"rendered":"Girl Falls 40 Feet In &#8216;Free Fall&#8217; Ride Accident In Wisconsin Dells"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>\u00a0A 12-year-old girl was injured on a ride at\u00a0a Wisconsin Dells\u00a0amusement park after falling 40 feet when the mechanism that was supposed to break her fall didn&#8217;t work, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/nation\/article\/12-year-old-girl-injured-after-plunging-more-than-40-feet-in-wisconsin-amusement-park\/19576000\">http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/nation\/article\/12-year-old-girl-injured-after-plunging-more-than-40-feet-in-wisconsin-amusement-park\/19576000<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>The girl was at the Extreme World amusement park on the Terminal Velocity, which is supposed to give riders the feeling of\u00a0 &#8220;an unattached, controlled free fall,&#8221;\u00a0when she had the accident July 30.\u00a0Riders are strapped into a harness, brought up an elevator,\u00a0and then released straight down into an airtube-supported net.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>But\u00a0when the girl was released for her free fall, a\u00a0safety net mechanism failed to break her fall, and she hit the ground, according to Lake Delton police.<\/p>\r\n<p>The girl was visiting the Wisconsin Dells with her family, who live out of state.\u00a0She was taken to the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison for treatment, and details of her injuries weren&#8217;t disclosed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A 12-year-old girl was injured on a ride at\u00a0a Wisconsin Dells\u00a0amusement park after falling 40 feet when the mechanism that was supposed to break her fall didn&#8217;t work, according to the Associated Press. http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/nation\/article\/12-year-old-girl-injured-after-plunging-more-than-40-feet-in-wisconsin-amusement-park\/19576000 The girl was at the Extreme World amusement park on the Terminal Velocity, which is supposed to give riders the feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[490,5,4,491],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amusement-park-accidents","tag-wisconsin-accident","tag-wisconsin-attorney","tag-wisconsin-dells-accidents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}