Horrifying moment 13-year-old girl falls to death from carnival in Honduras: Spokesman for ride company claims girl ‘passed out’ and it’s not their fault
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- Britany Fernández was killed after falling from a carnival ride in Santa Barbara, Honduras on Sunday night.
- The 13-year-old was sitting on the ride with her mother and friends when she fell from a spinning wheel which was upside down.
- Video footage showed Fernandez falling from her seat before landing on the ride platform; she was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics
- A spokesman for the company that operates the theme park ride said the girl ‘passed out’ and that it was not their fault
This is the terrifying moment a teenage girl fell to her death from a carnival in the western Honduran province of Santa Barbara on Sunday.
Britany Fernández, 13, can be seen in the video sitting with other family members as the pendulum ride known as ‘Jupiter’ swings back and forth, swinging the spinning wheel out of the air a few feet above the platform as she. registered family.
The wheel was positioned upside down when Fernández suddenly slides out of her seat and crashes onto the platform.
Loud shouting can be heard in the background with an adult moving a child backwards before the video ends.
Fernández was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
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Britany Fernández was killed Sunday night in Santa Barbara, Honduras, after falling from a carnival. The 13-year-old was accompanied by her mother and family members when the safety strap on her seat came loose, causing her to slide and land on a platform below.
Footage of the Honduran carnival ride that 13-year-old Britany Fernández was on moments before she fell to her death after her seat’s seat belt came loose
Santa Barbara police spokesman Jesús Pineda said her death was ruled an accident and that investigators had filed a report with the prosecutor’s office.
Local media reported that some of the locks on the passenger seats were rusted and not working properly.
A representative of the company that operates the rides at the fair spoke to a local television network and said the incident “was an accident.”
‘The girl boarded the (trip) accompanied by her mother. But she fainted. It’s not our fault. We have an operating permit,” said the agent’s spokesman.
A spokesman for the company that ran rides at a carnival in Honduras told a local TV station that Britany Fernández ‘passed out’ and that the accident was not their ‘fault’.
Adults crowd Britany Fernández moments after she fell off the Ferris wheel
Oscar Trimino, spokesman for the Santa Barbara Fire Department, said the city of Chinda, where the festival was held, does not have a fire station, which would have played a role in issuing a permit for the rides to operate.
“It is recommended that the mayor’s office request support from nearby fire stations, in this case the Santa Barbara station, to send equipment and perform electrical, mechanical and all-level safety checks,” Trimino said.
The fairgrounds have been closed since Sunday.
Fernández was a seventh grader at the Juan Lindo Institute. Classmates and a school administrator remembered her as a ‘sweet girl’ who was ‘very charismatic, very humble’.
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