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Georgia amusement park to reopen as scheduled days after roller coaster death

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Friday, October 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM · 1 min read
Georgia amusement park to reopen as scheduled days after roller coaster death — WPLG Local 10, Parkland Schools news
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ATLANTA (AP) — Six Flags Over Georgia is set to open its gates Friday for the first time since a man fell to his death from one of the amusement park's towering roller coasters.Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old school employee from Atlanta, was thrown from the Goliath coaster on Monday, and authorities are investigating what happened. The park was already scheduled to be closed Tuesday through Thursday and is reopening as scheduled Friday evening, though Goliath is not expected to be running.Witnesses described seeing Kariem ejected from the coaster, and some people who rode the Goliath before him that day said they had concerns about its restraints. At least 11 roller coasters in the U.S. and Canada were temporarily closed after his death, nine of which were manufactured by the company that built Goliath and with similar restraints.Online photos and videos of most of the closed coasters show each equipped with clamshell restraints, which are mounted in front of each seat on a ver

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