The Kansas City roller coaster, known as the Mamba, is Worlds of Fun’s tallest ride and includes a 205-foot drop
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- A Missouri couple recalled helping hold down a girl behind them on a roller coaster after her seat belt allegedly failed
- Chris and Cassie Evans said the girl’s seat belt allegedly came undone mid-ride while on Worlds of Fun’s tallest roller coaster
- “The girl sitting behind my wife just lets out this blood-curdling scream like I’ve never heard before,” Chris remembered
A roller coaster ride at an amusement park in Missouri turned into a terrifying ordeal, according to one local couple.
Chris and Cassie Evans said they were riding the Mamba roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City on Oct. 11, when they heard a scream from behind them, according to Fox 8, ABC 7 and KMBC.
“We get on the roller coaster and the very first hill, the girl sitting behind my wife just lets out this blood-curdling scream, like I’ve never heard before,” Chris told Fox 8. “I assumed it was her first time on the ride, but then she said her seat belt came undone.”
He said that he and his wife, who are season ticket holders to the park and know the ride fairly well, did everything they could to help secure the girl in her seat as the roller coaster took dips and turns…