A six-year-old girl who was killed at an amusement park in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, had 'fallen out' of a ride which sends people dropping 110 feet, according to police dispatch audio.
The girl had been visiting Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park with her family on Sunday when she was fatally injured on the Haunted Mine Drop ride - a Tower of Terror-style attraction that plunges riders 110 feet in a simulated freefall into an underground cavern in three seconds or less.
Police scanner traffic captured on the day of the incident reveals a dispatcher frantically requested assistance at the park 'for a party that fell out of the shaft ride.'
The dispatcher added, 'The party is at the bottom of the shaft.'
The Garfield County Coroner's Office revealed on Monday that that the child was a 6-year-old girl from Colorado Springs. Her cause of death has not yet been confirmed, and officials have not released her identity.
A post about the Haunted Mine Drop ride on the park's website and a promotional video were deleted on Monday morning.
The latest details came as previous visitors to the attraction claimed that safety belts on the ride were not attached tight enough, leaving them fearful for their safety.
The young girl was fatally injured on the Haunted Mine Drop ride - a Tower of Terror-style attraction that plunges riders 110 feet in a simulated freefall into an underground cavern in three seconds or less
Police scanner traffic captured on the day of the incident reveals a dispatcher frantically requested assistance at the park 'for a party that fell out of the shaft ride,' adding, 'The party is at the bottom of the shaft'
'I rode that ride in June and the young girl running the ride didn't seem to know what she was doing,' rider Sarah Akard wrote on Facebook.
'My safety belt wasn't tight and I felt like I was coming out of the ride.
'I tried to tell her but they started the ride. I'm thankful I was able to hold myself in. Prayers to the family and those on the ride.'
It emerged Monday that the vertigo-inducing ride was specifically designed to not include shoulder restraints.
In a 2017 interview marking the attraction's opening, its designer Stan Checketts told KDVR that they took the decision to make it 'a little bit more exciting'.
'We don't put shoulder restraints on the side of your head, which makes it a little bit more scary,' he bragged to the Denver news outlet at the time.
'Usually as a rule, every ride that I've ever designed with my team and built with my team, I'm the first one to ride it,' revealed Checketts in regards to the Mine Drop ride.
But he added, 'In this particular case, that's not true. It's very
