Amusement Park: Settlement Reached Over Accident
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Posted: 3:31 PM Nov 21, 2008
Amusement Park: Settlement Reached Over Accident
Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom says it has reached a settlement with the family of a Louisville girl whose feet were severed following an accident at the amusement park last year.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom says it has reached a settlement with the family of a Louisville girl whose feet were severed following an accident at the amusement park last year.

Kaitlyn Lasitter was 13 years old when she was injured after a cable broke on the Superman Tower of Power ride in June 2007. Doctors reattached her right foot, but were unable to save her left foot.

Kentucky Kingdom spokeswoman Carolyn McLean said Friday that the settlement will provide lifetime care for Kaitlyn. She said terms of the agreement are confidential.

Calls to Kaitlyn's father Randy and the family's attorney were not immediately returned.

A state report blamed a faulty cable and a ride operator's slow response, but officials say there's no way of knowing why the cable snapped.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Posted by: Laura on Nov 23, 2008 at 06:45 PM

Heather, why don't you go to an amusement park, have BOTH of your feet severed and have only one of them RE-ATTECHED and have to live the rest of your life (from the age of 13) with an artificial foot and see how you feel then. Your medical bills would be in the tens of thousands, of not hundreds of thousands, not to mention physical therapy, and the high risks of losing the other foot eventually anyway. Try to pay those bills on your own without suing and then tell us how you feel.
Posted by: darla on Nov 23, 2008 at 07:18 AM

all the money in this world could not replace what this girl has lost.heather if any lawsuit was rightfully due it was for this 13 year old girl.
Posted by: IKE on Nov 23, 2008 at 05:15 AM

To Heather, yeah sure , if you was in front of this poor little girl who's life is changed forever I bet you wouldn't talk that way ! Or if it was you missing a foot ! You ask me I wouldn't care if it wasn't there fault, all places like this need to have fund set up for things like this just because it is the right thing to do !
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