A woman died on Saturday July 7 in the afternoon while falling from a roller coaster at an amusement park in Saint-Paul, in the Oise department. "An accident occurred this Saturday on the Formula 1 attraction (...) A passenger fell from the vehicle traveling on the" roller-coaster "type attraction while it was in operation", a reported in a press release Parc Saint-Paul, chaired by Gilles Campion.
The firefighters intervened and tried in vain to revive the victim. No one else was injured, the statement said. A source close to the rescue said the victim was in his forties. The accident occurred shortly before 2 p.m., according to the firefighters, who did not give further information.
The park was closed after the accident and "park teams took care of visitors and families affected" , adds the park, which is at the "disposal" of firefighters and the national gendarmerie, on site, to "Collaborate with them following this accident" . The Beauvais prosecution was not immediately available. The prefecture simply confirmed that an accident had occurred in the early afternoon, without further details.
