SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A summer time day driving curler coasters at Six Flags Magic Mountain in southern California turned lethal for one household, and now they’re suing the theme park and the producer of a curler coaster trip they are saying killed the household’s oldest son.
It was imagined to be a day of enjoyable for 2 brothers and their cousin in June 2022. Their go to took a lethal flip after they rode a coaster known as X2.
The youthful brother, Alex Hawley, observed his older brother, Christopher Hawley, did not look nicely when he acquired off the trip.
“Christopher, he simply regarded very crimson, simply very like, one thing simply wasn’t like proper, after which he finally simply collapsed on his manner off the trip,” Alex Hawley stated.
In line with the household’s lawyer, Christopher Hawley was rushed to a close-by hospital and died the next day. A wrongful dying lawsuit filed in opposition to the theme park and the trip producer alleges the 22-year-old suffered large head and mind harm from the trip.
“The kind of accidents that Christopher suffered and the timing of when he acquired off the trip provides us power and confidence to imagine that on the time of trial, we’ll have the ability to present this was not an damage he suffered earlier within the day or a while prior in his life, however occurred through the X2 trip,” stated household lawyer Ari Friedman, a associate at Wisner Baum.
Information from the L.A. County medical expert confirmed blunt head trauma as the reason for dying.
On its web site, the theme park describes speeds of almost 80 miles per hour for the curler coaster.
Christopher Hawley’s youthful brother remembers a sudden halt after they have been on the trip.
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“Our heads identical to went ahead after which identical to all the way in which slammed again actually laborious,” Alex Hawley stated.
Christopher’s mom, Anne Hawley, stated he did not undergo from any well being points. Practically three years later, she will be able to’t regulate to life with out her oldest son.
“It is imagined to be the 4 of us. We weren’t imagined to lose certainly one of our boys and never that manner,” she stated.
Christopher Hawley was an aspiring actor. He had simply graduated from faculty, and was weeks shy of his twenty third birthday on the time of his dying.
“He was my son, however he was additionally a buddy. We did a lot,” Christopher’s father, William Hawley, stated with tears in his eyes.
ABC Los Angeles affiliate KABC reached out to the theme park, however had not heard again as of Tuesday afternoon. As this household prepares for trial, they’re demanding solutions.
“We need to know. We have not heard something from Magic Mountain. There’s been no clarification as to what occurred or why issues occurred,” William Hawley stated.
Friedman stated the trial is ready to start out Oct. 13 in L.A. County Superior Courtroom.
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