Family Of 14 Year Old Tyre Sampson Who Fell From Orlando Amusement Park Files Lawsuit

Family Sues Over Death Of 14 Year Old Tyre Sampson Who Fell From Orlando Amusement Park

This Monday, the family of a Missouri teenager who died last month after he fell off an amusement park ride in Orlando, Florida, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

Attorney Ben Crump released a tweet this morning saying, “BREAKING: We’ve filed a complaint against Orlando’s ICON Park for the wrongful death of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson, who fell approximately 100 feet to his death on the Free Fall ride.”

The 65-page lawsuit filed in Orange County’s 9th Judicial Circuit Court names Tyre’s father and mother, Yarnell Sampson and Nekia Dodd, as plaintiffs. Orlando Eagle Drop Slingshot LLC, which owns the Free Fall, and ICON Park are named as defendants.

 

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The lawsuit claims negligence, saying that at 6-feet-2-inches tall and 380 pounds, Tyre was still allowed to get on the ride and there were no signs marking height or even weight restrictions:

“ICON DEFENDANTS owed a duty to its customers, including Plaintiffs’ decedent, TYRE SAMPSON, to exercise reasonable care in operating, managing, maintaining, designing, inspecting, constructing, testing, fixing, and/or controlling the amusement park rides located on its premises, including the subject Free Fall amusement park ride,” the lawsuit stated. In addition to this, the suit claims that the defendants also failed to train “employees, contractors, and agents as to the proper and safe height and weight restrictions for the Free Fall amusement park ride.”

The teen sadly died March 24 after plunging from the Free Fall attraction at ICON Park. Crump, who represents the family explained in a full statement that “the defendants in Tyre’s case showed negligence in a multitude of ways. One of the most glaring examples was failing to provide a $22 seatbelt on a ride that cost several million dollars to construct.”