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Goliath's fatal ejection puts SeaWorld's Mako on hold, FOX 35 reports

Marie Edinger reports from outside SeaWorld Orlando, where a similar coaster has closed, and explains why the rules on ride restraints differ from state to state.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 39,520 views a day, 24 times a normal first day on this channel (1,671).

Man dies after being ejected from Georgia roller coaster

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0:33SeaWorld Orlando closed Mako as a precaution because it is very similar to Georgia's Goliath.
0:54The Cobb County Police report says the man was ejected, struck riders and structures, and died.
1:13Edinger compares the case to an earlier fatal fall in Orlando and the Florida restraint law that followed.
2:24Edinger says no federal rule applies to all US parks, and there is no national dual-restraint requirement.
3:22Wymer notes that Goliath uses a lap bar without a seatbelt.
4:35Six Flags' statement on safety policies is cited, and Edinger notes that incidents are not tracked uniformly nationwide.

SeaWorld Orlando has closed Mako as a precaution. Standing outside the park, FOX 35's Marie Edinger explains why: Mako is very similar to Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia, where a man was ejected and died.

Citing the Cobb County Police report, Edinger says the man struck other riders and parts of the coaster's structure as he fell. She points out that police used the word "ejected" in their news release. A lower-third banner carries the Orlando angle: "SEA WORLD'S MAKO CLOSED AMID INVESTIGATION INTO GEORGIA."

The segment spends most of its five minutes on the restraints. Anchor Garrett Wymer notes that Goliath has "essentially a lap bar, but no seat belt or anything like that." Edinger connects the case to an earlier fatal fall of a 14-year-old in Orlando and to the Florida law on ride restraints that followed it, which requires many coasters in the state to use dual restraint systems. Georgia is a different matter, because "there is no federal regulation for all theme parks that applies equally across the United States." The report raises the question of additional safeguards but does not establish what caused the man to be ejected.

The report has drawn more than 17,000 views in seven hours, already far more than a regular FOX 35 video usually gets in a full day. That came on a quieter day for the station overall, which had just finished a week of coverage of Isaias. The comment section is also unusually busy, with many viewers arguing about lap bars, harnesses and whether a single rider's restraint could fail on its own.

The station also posted a second segment, in which theme park technologist Matthew Miller discusses Mako's closure. According to its description, Six Flags has temporarily closed nine coasters nationwide, and Mako shares a manufacturer with Goliath. Edinger finishes on a gap in the record: fatal accidents at theme parks are rare, but because there is no uniform federal tracking of incidents, they are hard to study.

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