Her 6-year-old granddaughter wanted to ride the log flume, and Dominick agreed to join her. She said she and her husband take her grandchildren to the amusement park every year around Thanksgiving. Stevenson lives less than a mile away from Castles N' Coasters. According to the Commission, Phoenix has no local municipal ride-inspection program, but Prescott does. Rather, state law requires parks to obtain a permit and receive a yearly inspection from a private agency or insurance company. Park managers issued a statement saying they were "devastated" by the mishap, but said the boy would have been safe if he had stuck to the park's rules.īut Stevenson said things went wrong because the ride was unsafe and operators ignored the boy's cries for help.Īrizona is one of eight states that does not regulate theme parks, according to industry watchdog non-profit and the U.S. That's where agreement about what happened ends. His grandmother, Carroll Stevenson, said the fall left him with several gashes and a traumatic brain injury. He had emergency brain surgery and is now in a coma, being treated at Phoenix Children's Hospital, family members said. On Saturday, family members revealed the injured boy's name is Dominick Leal, a seventh-grader from Casa Grande. Holmes said the boy was taken to the hospital with serious injuries but was last listed as being in stable condition. when he stood up for unknown reasons, Phoenix police spokesman James Holmes said. He caught his foot on the ride and was dragged before he fell an unknown height into the water.
The boy was riding a water log flume ride at the amusement park at around 4 p.m. A 12-year-old boy was seriously injured on a ride at the Castles N' Coasters amusement park in Phoenix on Friday afternoon, police said, and now the boy's family and the park are blaming each other for the cause.
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