Ohio Man Dies After Being Hit By Roller Coaster

  • 9 years ago
A school teacher is dead after being struck by the Raptor roller coaster at Cedar Point theme park in Ohio on Thursday night.

An Ohio man is dead after being struck by a roller coaster early Thursday evening.

James A. Young was a high school teacher attending Cedar Point theme park with a group of friends. 

They had just finished riding the Raptor, an inverted roller coaster with speeds up to 57 mph, when Young noticed that his phone was missing. 

Believing it to have fallen out during the ride, he jumped a fence a little after 5 p.m. a

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