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Woman’s Death at New York Amusement Park Marks Fourth in Four Years
A 21-year-old woman was killed on Friday after being thrown from an amusement park ride in New York.
As employee of the Playland Amusement Park since she was 14, Gabriela Garin was securing some late arriving passengers for the Mind Scrambler when the ride’s operator started the ride. Designed as a spider-armed whirling attraction the ride lifts and spins passengers while traveling in two-seat cars Garin had not exited to the platform before the ride was set in motion.
By the time the operator had realized Garin was still on the ride she had already been thrown from it. When emergency crewmembers arrived there was little they could do for Garin. She was pronounced dead on the scene.
The accident occurred on the same ride that a seven-year-old girl died on three years earlier. The girl had freed herself from the restraining bar before the ride started and was thrown when it started.
A seven-year-old boy was killed in 2005 when he climbed out of his boat ride and fell and a 43-year-old man drowned last year in the park’s lake.
Playland, located on Long Island Sound, was opened in 1928.
