COASTER OPENING STALLED TO MARK WORKER DEATH.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writer VALENCIA - A day after a roller coaster struck and killed a Six Flags Magic Mountain Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located just west of the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles. It opened on Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 1971 as Magic Mountain, by the Newhall Land and Farming Company,[1] employee, state safety investigators cleared the ride to resume operations, but the theme park said it would keep the coaster closed through the weekend out of respect for the employee's family. Bantita Rackchamroon, 21, was conducting routine tests on the SCREAM! coaster before 10 a.m. Friday, moments before the park opened its doors, when she stepped into a restricted area and into the train's path, authorities said. Inspectors from the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health joined police at the scene and, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Six Flags For the national flags of Texas, see . Six Flags (NYSE: SIX) is the world's largest chain of amusement parks and theme parks and is headquartered in New York City. There are 20 such parks run by Six Flags. California spokeswoman Sue Carpenter You can improve this article by adding links to related material, within the existing text. After links have been created, remove this message. For more information, see the . ``Out of respect for the Rackchamroon family and Bantita's fellow employees, the park will keep the ride closed through the weekend,'' park officials said. Rackchamroon was performing a routine brake test A brake test is a term used in motorsport. A driver is said to brake test another driver when the two drivers are driving very close together and the front driver deliberately brakes very hard, causing the second driver to have to do likewise and often make an evading manoeuvre to on the coaster - the park's newest, which whips riders through corkscrews and down steep drops at up to 65 mph - when she ``deviated from her training procedures'' and stepped onto the tracks, according to a Magic Mountain statement released Saturday. California Occupational Safety and Health spokesman Dean Fryer said Friday it appeared that Rackchamroon ``walked across the tracks (when exiting) instead of through an exit gate.'' Rackchamroon was taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, where she died, officials said. Carpenter said the SCREAM! ride will reopen Monday. Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com |
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