Six Flags directors introduced Saturday that they are going to institute new security measures, together with seatbelts, for the Goliath coaster on the firm’s Georgia park, practically two weeks after a rider was killed when he fell off the experience.
Directors mentioned that the hyper coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia will stay closed as they proceed to examine it and examine Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem’s loss of life, however they’re dedicated to creating modifications to the experience.
The tracks of the Goliath curler coaster are seen within the sky above Six Flags over Georgia on Oct. 14, 2026, in Austell, Georgia.
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Kariem, 42, an IT supervisor, trainer and robotics coach at an Atlanta faculty, was “ejected from the experience and struck different patrons earlier than falling beneath the attraction,” the Cobb County Police Division mentioned within the wake of the Oct. 12 incident.
He was on the Six Flags park with a number of relations to rejoice his niece’s birthday and was sitting beside his niece when he was ejected from the curler coaster, a relative advised ABC Information.
Along with putting in the seat belts on Goliath, which had lap-bar restraints, the park mentioned it has “engaged impartial engineers and experience inspection specialists to comprehensively evaluate present security procedures throughout our whole portfolio of rides and sights, throughout all of our parks.”
The Goliath curler coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Cobb County, Georgia, is seen on Oct. 12, 2026.
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“We’re dedicated to fastidiously evaluating their findings and taking applicable motion to additional strengthen our requirements and tradition of security,” Six Flags mentioned in a press release.
The investigation by the park and police into the incident, the place different folks had been additionally injured, is ongoing.
Six Flags Over Georgia is situated in Austell, west of Atlanta. The Goliath curler coaster reaches an elevation of 200 ft and speeds as much as 70 mph, in accordance with the amusement park’s web site. The experience first opened in 2006.
After the incident, Six Flags indefinitely closed 9 related coasters together with Nitro in Nice Journey in New Jersey, as a precaution.
The Goliath curler coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Cobb County, Georgia, is seen on Oct. 12, 2026.
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On Saturday, Six Flags mentioned eight of these coasters remained closed and can have the seat belts or different restraints put in.
