An American of Nepalese origin who allegedly found himself paralyzed after boarding an old roller coaster has taken legal action against the amusement park in South Carolina, which he accuses of negligence.
“The allegation is that he got on board without a problem, and he came out as a quadriplegic. (It’s been) a really, really sad day for this young man, who is in horrible condition,” the man’s attorney, Morgan Martin, told The Sun News, a Myrtle Beach newspaper, on Friday. .
Last Thursday, Kul Sannyashi and his wife, Gangia Adhikari, both filed a lawsuit against the Family Kingdom amusement park, located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where the man of Nepalese origin allegedly suffered a significant injury to his the spinal cord in July 2021.
That day, he alleges that he took a seat aboard the Swamp Fox roller coaster, an old wooden structure that opened in 1966, before being renovated following the devastating passage of Hurricane Hugo in 1989. , according to court documents.
Except that the ride would be particularly “violent and rough”, according to the couple’s lawyer, so much so that the North Carolina man would have emerged with a “serious spinal cord injury which caused quadriplegia”, can we read.
However, it is not specified how the ride caused the injury.
But according to the couple, the amusement park would have shown “negligence, recklessness, stubbornness and impudence” by encouraging visitors to board without warning them of its “latent dangers”, according to the media local.
He also allegedly failed to correct, which would have made “the roller coaster extremely dangerous, even more so than a conventional roller coaster,” the filing said, basing its allegations on an inspection of the ride.
In the two suits filed individually, the couple seeks monetary compensation for damages suffered by the incapacity of Kul Sannyashi, who is no longer able to carry out his “usual business and duties” since the incident, according to The Sun News.
Although the amount claimed was not specified, the man indicated that he still needed 24-hour nursing care even though he was still suffering from pain three years later.
