Child dies on Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park ride, closing park through Tuesday

Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park is closed done Tuesday portion authorities analyse the decease of a kid connected 1 of its rides precocious Sunday.

The 6-year-old miss from Colorado Springs was fatally injured connected the park’s Haunted Mine Drop thrust astatine astir 7:44 p.m., 1 of respective rides featured astatine the fashionable upland attraction, according to the Garfield County coroner’s office.

The girl’s individuality has not been released to let her household to notify different relatives, the coroner said.

The parkland issued a connection connected its website saying it was “deeply saddened and inquire that you delight support the household of the deceased successful your thoughts and prayers.”

A parkland spokesperson could not beryllium instantly reached Monday. The coroner’s bureau said parkland unit administered archetypal assistance to the miss until paramedics arrived. She was pronounced dormant astatine the country and an autopsy is scheduled.

The miss had been vacationing successful Glenwood Springs with her family, astir 160 miles westbound of Denver.

The thrust is 1 of the park’s oldest attractions and sits adjacent its entrance, according to its website. It describes the thrust arsenic the “first driblet thrust successful the satellite to spell underground, plunging riders 110 feet wrong the acheronian depths of Iron Mountain successful what feels similar a free-fall.”

Although the International Association of Amusement Rides and Attractions reports that astir 1,200 injuries connected mean are reported annually, rides are comparatively harmless with lone astir 1 wounded for each 15.5 cardinal rides taken. Fatal injuries are adjacent rarer.

In all, the relation reports that astir 385 cardinal radical instrumentality 1.7 cardinal rides astatine astir 440 North American fixed-site facilities annually.