Family sues Disney for $50,000 after man finds fiancée unconscious at end of Humunga Kowabunga water slide

Walt Disney Parks has been sued by a woman who claims she lost consciousness and suffered head trauma after riding a giant slide at Typhoon Lagoon.

Laura Reyes-Merino is seeking $50,000 in damages and claims in court documents that the park was negligent in failing to maintain the ride.

Ms. Reyes-Merino’s lawyers say she was injured while riding a tube on the Humunga Kowabunga ride on May 11 at the Florida theme park.

It is described in the lawsuit as a 214-foot, downhill, enclosed body slide at a 60-degree angle. She alleges she lost consciousness due to the “shock inside the slide.”

Court documents say her fiancé and mother found her limp body at the end of the ride and “frantically asked the attendants to help her.”

These attendants said they were not lifeguards and would need to find someone to help them. Meanwhile, the woman’s fiancé pulled her out of the water while help was on the way.

“Eventually a rescuer came and said he couldn’t help or touch the plaintiff either and called an ambulance,” court documents state.

“If the defendant had had lifeguards at the end of the ride to watch over and help the guests get off the ride, the plaintiff’s brain injury would not have occurred because she would not have drowned in the water spitting water. blood.”

The independent has contacted Walt Disney Parks for comment.