10-Year-Old Girl Who Lost Consciousness After Revolution Ride In California Amusement Park Dies

An ongoing autopsy will determine if the amusement park ride Revolution contributed to the death of 10-year-old Jasmine Martinez of Somis, California? That autopsy is being conducted by the Los Angeles coroner’s office after Martinez died on Saturday.

Martinez lost consciousness on Friday after she go off the looping Revolution roller coaster of the Six Flags Magic Mountain Park in Valencia, southern California, but she was still breathing then. She was first airlifted to a local hospital and then transferred to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where she died, reports Fox News.

The Revolution is a 113-foot-high looping steel coaster that reaches a maximum speed of 55 mph during its two-minute run. The park had the Revolution since 1976 and more than 45 million people have ridden it safely. According to Reuters, the Revolution is the first roller coaster in the world with a full vertical loop at 90 feet and one of the 18 rides in the park.

The park said, “There is no evidence to suggest that this was in any way related … We do not know if [Jasmine had] a pre-existing condition,” quotes LA Times. Reuters reports that in 2001, a female visitor who rode another roller coaster in the same park died. The autopsy said her pre-existing brain aneurysm ruptured, likely aggravated by the ride’s strain and stress that caused the woman’s weakened blood vessel to burst.

When the incident involving Martinez happened, the park initially reopened Revolution because state investigators determined the incident was not related to the ride’s operation, reports Pix11. But after the report of Martinez’s death, Six Flags closed again the ride while reviewing the incident to comply with California regulations.

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