Jury selection has begun in a trial involving a Colorado theme park after an unrestrained six-year-old girl fell over 100 feet to her death. Wongel Estifanos died on the Haunted Mine Drop ride at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Sept. 2021.

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Investigators said an employee didn't prepare the seatbelts before Wongel got on the ride, and she sat on top of the still locked seatbelt in a previously occupied seat. They also said an operator overrode an indicator notifying them that the restraints weren't properly secured before starting the ride.

Wongel and her uncle, aunt and cousins, who are from Colorado Springs, were on vacation in Glenwood Springs when they visited Glenwood Caverns. The Haunted Mine Drop ride, where she died, drops riders 110 feet.

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