Report: Girl Wasn’t Buckled in Before Fatal Theme Park Fall

Report: Girl Wasn’t Buckled in Before Fatal Theme Park Fall
The Haunted Mine Drop is shown in this file photo at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colo, July 2017. Chelsea Self/Glenwood Springs Post Independent via AP, File
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DENVER, Colo.—A 6-year-old Colorado girl who died in a fall from a theme park ride this month wasn’t wearing the seat belts, and operators of the vertical drop ride didn’t properly check the restraints before allowing it to begin, according to a report from state investigators.

Wongel Estifanos fell 100 feet to her death from the Haunted Mine Drop ride at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park on Sept. 5, according to the report released Friday from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.