Claims extracted
17
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
12%
2 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
67/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
52
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Six Flags Over Georgia shut down its “Goliath” roller coaster for maintenance due to a wasp’s nest just hours before a teacher fatally fell out of the ride, a parkgoer told The Post.
asserted
parkgoer → shut → Post
Hassan Kariem, 42, was killed and four children were injured when he was ejected from the high-speed hypercoaster shortly before 4 p.m. on Monday at the park near Atlanta.
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he → kill → Atlanta
Two other teachers who were at the park told The Post they tried to get on Goliath some three hours earlier — but couldn’t because it was closed for maintenance with a park worker conducting a test run.
asserted
worker → tell → run
“I was there at the same time, and the ride op told me the ride was down because of a wasp nest,” coaster enthusiast Renee Byrd, from Valdosta, said.
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Byrd → tell → Valdosta
The 52-year-old Byrd, a mother of two, eventually rode the Goliath later that day, roughly 20 minutes before the accident that killed Kariem.
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that → ride → Kariem
“I didn’t see any wasps when I rode so I guess they got rid of it or maybe there wasn’t one, and maybe somebody just said there was,” she said.
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she → see → it
She suggested the park worker seen riding alone in one of the carts earlier may have been looking for the nest.
uncertain
worker → suggest → nest
“The ride ops have to unlock the entire row sometimes or multiple rows in one train when a large person’s restraint won’t click down all the way,” she said.
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she → have → train
“The clicking and unlocking was making sure the large guest’s restraint locked, and every time it un-clicks for the other guests.”
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it → make → guests
Six Flags Over Georgia is due to reopen Friday at 6 p.m. but Goliath will remain “temporarily closed,” a park spokesperson told ABC News Wednesday.
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spokesperson → reopen → News
The Cobb County Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit and Georgia’s Office of the Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire, which is responsible for the safety of amusement park rides in the state, are both probing the fatal fall.
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which → probe → fall
Cops said they found Kariem “unresponsive and not breathing” beneath the ride, after being called to the park around 3:58 p.m. on Monday.
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Kariem → say → Monday
“The victim was located on a building inside the park near the inner service road,” an incident report obtained by The Post said.
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report → locate → Post
Kariem was thrown from the ride and hit other patrons during his fall until he landed beneath the massive ride, according to police.
uncertain
he → throw → police
He was at the park with his family to celebrate his niece’s 13th birthday and was sitting next to her when he fell from the coaster, a relative told CNN.
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relative → celebrate → CNN
“His final moments and words were with her,” the girl’s dad and brother of Kariem’s fiancee, Joshua Nelson, told the outlet.
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dad → tell → outlet
“She called me crying after the ride ended stating Mr. Hassan fell off the ride.”
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Hassan → call → ride
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