A teen girl was flung from an amusement park ride at the Sandspit Amusement Park in Cavendesh, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on Wednesday, reported CBC News. Fifteen-year-old Leah Forrest was at the park with her family when the accident happened.
X-rays and ultrasounds at the Prince County Hospital revealed that she had no broken bones, internal bleeding or other injuries, reported The Guardian.
"I'll never get the image of what I saw out of head," said Joan Forrest, the girl's mother. "When I close my eyes it's there."
The Rok-n-Rol ride at the park consists of cars that spin around while positioned at the end of rotating arms. Each car can hold up to four people.
Forrest was taking a picture of her daughter on the ride when the accident happened.
"I thought I had been watching my daughter get killed," the girl's mother said.
The girl said that she knew something was wrong once the ride began.
"Our bums would lift out of the seat and we'd almost hit each other," she said. "One of the other people, my sister, she was across from me and we would fall out and hit and we'd just be flinging around, and it didn't feel normal."
"I saw her body get hit and flung around by the oncoming cars," said the girl's mother. "She finally landed flat on her back...I yelled at her to lie down and watch your head because it was so close to being smashed."
Matthew Jelley, president of Sandspit Entertainment, stated that he does not believe that the accident was a result of operator mistakes, although the company has launched an internal investigation to confirm this.
