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03-11-2012, 05:27 PM
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Re: Girl Dies by Carnival Ride.
A better translation/version of story: Investigations into the accident that killed the teenager Gabriella Nishimura, 14, in the park Hopi Hari , took a twist yesterday. Two employees who worked on the ride La Tour Eiffel, from which the girl fell, said in a statement that the chair used by the girl was defective and could not have been released. Operators Igor Espinucci Vitor de Oliveira, 24, and Mark Anthony Thomas Leal, 18, said to their lawyer Bichir Junior that they told a superior about the fact that the chair has trouble 15 minutes before the ride was up and running, but got no answer about what to do. Gabriella would have been the first person to use the chair that day. "They (employees) do not have the authority to stop a ride. Why was it not stopped. Perhaps too much of a profit target," said the lawyer. The testimony of employees against the version of Hopi Hari and the main line of investigation of the Civil Police and the Public Ministry of São Paulo, after the second [skill] performed on the ride, on Monday, said it increased the possibility of human error than mechanical. On Monday, a maintenance park engineer , who was not named, testified and said to be impossible to delegate to a mechanical failure. Bichir Junior did not say who was responsible, but said that the chair should have been at least interdicted. "Or have a giant warning: 'Do not sit here.'" According to the officials , the problem would have a safety lock and the belt that would be a second safety device. The defective chair , according Bichir, Jr., is the first on the left to the riders. Unofficially, park officials said the day of the accident that the chair was turned off. The Hopi Hari issued a statement yesterday saying that "with respect to new facts, the park strongly reaffirms the complete cooperation with all bodies in the final determination of this case." Attorney Ademar Gomes, who represents the family of Nishimura said he had attached to the file photo of Gabriella sitting in the chair. ************** So after all that - The seat she chose to sit in was turned off so the locking mechanisms that are controlled electronically were not engaging. The ride raced to the top of the tower and just as it began to freefall she was lifted out of her seat and fell to the ground........  |
