While not in North Carolina, the course is operated by Asheville-based Navitat Canopy Adventures. In July 2015, 18-year-old Gregory Horan, of Georgia, was climbing a ropes course at the Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Equipment malfunction was said to be the fault. In 2006, 17-year-old Ozzie Vargas, of Apex, was killed when he fell 47 feet from a zip line at Camp Oak Hill in Granville County, about an hour south of Raleigh. RELATED: Teen critically injured in 2015 zip lining accident in Arden RELATED: NC passes first legislation related to zip lines The bill passed the House last month with a vote of 70-46 and is now awaiting review in the Senate.
Her harness snapped and she fell from the ride, dying as a result of her injuries. Ted Davis Jr., R-New Hanover, named for Sanders Burney, a 12-year-old who was riding a zip line at Camp Cheerio, a YMCA camp in Alleghany County. House Bill 380, also known as Sanders’ Law, was introduced by Rep. Unfortunately, some of the few accidents that have occurred were more human error than the construction of the course," she said. Investigators later found the ride had been tampered with and critical safety devices compromised.“We’re really committed to running the safest operations for the children we serve and we feel that this bill would not necessarily address errors that would potentially occur. Five people were hurt when the ride started to move as people were getting off. That bill was proposed after a 2013 accident on a ride called “The Vortex” at the N.C. I mean, if I sit here and do nothing, and another child dies, I just wouldn’t be able to live with myself.”ĭavis added the provision to House Bill 39, which increases the penalties for willfully operating amusement rides illegally. But I just felt like I had to go the extra mile to make sure that these zip lines are uniformly required to get inspections and insurance, all those kinds of things. “I realize there is human error,” Davis said, “and I realize there are accidents. Davis happens to be a cousin of Sanders Burney, who lived in Wilmington, but says he would have suggested the state look into regulating zip lines after her death regardless. Ted Davis Jr., the New Hanover County Republican who added the provision to a bill already in the works. “I thought, with the death of this young lady, something needed to be done,” said Rep. Other camps also have continued to use their zip lines or to send their campers to commercial zip line operations just as they have every summer for years. The Bollmans didn’t close Carolina Ziplines Canopy Tour, which has never had a serious accident, and customers, including families and kids from area summer camps, continue to pour in Tuesdays through Sundays, slip into harnesses, helmets and safety gloves and get a taste of flight. But as a mother of 11 children and grandmother to 19, her first thought on hearing about the zip line accident that killed a 12-year-old girl at a North Carolina summer camp last month was, “That’s it. She is a member of a group visiting Carolina Ziplines Canopy Tour from Keyauwee, a camp in Sophia, N.C., run by the Carolina Peaks to Piedmont Council of the Girl Scouts.Ĭhuck co-owner with her husband of a busy canopy tour in the Stokes County treetops, Barbara Bollman believes zip lines are safe when properly built and operated. Emily Rush, 11, of Mebane, waves to friends as she rides a zipline over an old barn near Westfield, NC Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
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