{"id":80429,"date":"2026-10-24T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/six-flags-to-reopen-goliath-rollercoaster-but-now-with-seatbelts-after-recent-rider-death\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:55:08","slug":"six-flags-to-reopen-goliath-rollercoaster-but-now-with-seatbelts-after-recent-rider-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/six-flags-to-reopen-goliath-rollercoaster-but-now-with-seatbelts-after-recent-rider-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Flags to reopen Goliath rollercoaster \u2013 but now with seatbelts after recent rider death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem fell from ride earlier this month, spurring amusement park to temporarily shut it down<\/p>\n<p>Six Flags will install seatbelts on its Goliath rollercoaster in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\">Georgia<\/a>, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/13\/six-flags-rollercoaster-death\">rider<\/a> plummeted to his death earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old father and educator, was thrown from his seat on the Goliath, a coaster that plunges riders down 165ft, before a second drop of 180ft. On his way down, he collided with the ride\u2019s other cars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/24\/six-flags-goliath-rollercoaster-seatbelts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem fell from ride earlier this month, spurring amusement park to temporarily shut it down Six Flags will install seatbelts on its Goliath rollercoaster in Georgia, after a rider plummeted to his death earlier this month. Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old father and educator, was thrown from his seat on the &#8230; <a title=\"Six Flags to reopen Goliath rollercoaster \u2013 but now with seatbelts after recent rider death\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/six-flags-to-reopen-goliath-rollercoaster-but-now-with-seatbelts-after-recent-rider-death\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Six Flags to reopen Goliath rollercoaster \u2013 but now with seatbelts after recent rider death\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}