Six Flags Goliath: Lap Bars Should NEVER Open

👉 What happened next? Members-only follow-up on Reconstructed Plus: https://youtu.be/GaPe53sha00 Join our newsletter, all News explained: https://reconstructed.news/goliath-lapbar?m=desc Reconstructed: https://reconstructed.app Watch every channel: https://reconstructed.tv Sponsor a film: https://reconstructed.media/kit Business inquiries: [email protected] Try it kloudboard free for 14 days: https://kloudboard.com/r/reconstructed?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=goliath-lapbar&utm_content=description ---- Part 1: https://youtu.be/CHEDAIg6z28 On Monday 12 October 2026, near the end of the ride, Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, came out of his seat on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia and died. Police say early interviews show he was thrown from the coaster and struck other riders; four riders, all minors, were hurt. Goliath holds each rider with one clamshell lap bar, with no seat belt and nothing over the shoulders. We rebuilt the ride and its restraint in 3D to show how the bar is built to lock and the three ways a rider could come out of it. 00:00 Lap bars should never open 02:02 The last run 05:19 The seat, and three ways out 09:03 The hour after 11:01 What will answer it 12:52 He was the sunshine of our family What's known and not known (as of 15 Oct 2026): no official has said why he came out of his seat. Investigators are looking at the lap bars, the locks, the sensors and the maintenance records; none of it has been released, nor has his cause of death. Police have not said which car or seat he was in. The three "ways out" are possibilities, not findings about Goliath. The lock shown is the one in Bolliger & Mabillard's 1999 patent for this kind of lap bar; nothing public says Goliath's hardware matches it in detail. Six Flags Over Georgia was set to reopen Friday 16 Oct with Goliath still closed and no reopening date for it; a dozen coasters across North America were shut. Every 3D scene is a reconstruction (an illustration of what the record describes, not footage); his seat, his exit point and any impact are not shown because they are not known. SOURCES Police, officials, records: Cobb County Police (via AP, FOX 5 Atlanta, ABC News, CBS News Atlanta); Georgia Safety Fire Commissioner John King (via FOX 5 Atlanta, Atlanta News First); Six Flags Over Georgia park update and Goliath page; Bolliger & Mabillard; US Patent 6,287,211 B1 / EP1020212B1 (B&M, 1999); Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 120-3-27-.05 and -.07; Quest Engineering & Failure Analysis report for Florida FDACS (2022); New York State Department of Labor (Darien Lake, 22 Jul 2011). Reporting: AP (via PBS NewsHour, ABC News, Spectrum News, Fox News), FOX 5 Atlanta, Atlanta News First (incl. via WTOC and KOLO, Gray TV), CNN, Newsweek, WSB-TV via Yahoo, The Independent via Yahoo, NBC News / NBC 6, NewsNation, CBS News Atlanta, ABC News, FOX 35 Orlando, WBFO, The Batavian, Yahoo News. Witness accounts as given to FOX 5 Atlanta, Atlanta News First, CNN, NBC News and NewsNation. CREDITS (real photos, maps and pages shown) Photos, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0): Jeremy Thompson, 11 photos of Six Flags Over Georgia, 10 Jun 2023 (flickr.com/photos/32916425@N04, entrance gate via Wikimedia Commons); hagerman, "Georgia Scorcher (Six Flags Over Georgia) 03" (Wikimedia Commons). Photos, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0): Larry Felton Johnson, Cobb County Courier, "Six Flags in the off-season" 01, 02, 04, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19 (2018, Wikimedia Commons). Photos, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0): WillMcC at English Wikipedia, "Georgiascorcher.jpg" (2006, Wikimedia Commons). Public domain: Bruce Kinney/FEMA, "Flooding at Six Flags Over Georgia" (2009); USDA NAIP imagery via USGS The National Map; Natural Earth boundaries; US patent drawings. Maps: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (openstreetmap.org/copyright). Pages shown (our own screenshots, for news commentary): AP via PBS NewsHour, FOX 5 Atlanta, Atlanta News First, Atlanta News First via WTOC, CNN, WSB-TV via Yahoo, The Independent via Yahoo, Six Flags Over Georgia, Cornell LII, NY State Dept. of Labor (Wayback copy), Quest Engineering/FDACS, USPTO. Photos and pages were cropped; no photo shows the victim or the moment. We built this film on the record, but mistakes can happen. If something is not right, tell us in the comments and we will correct it. #SixFlags #Goliath #RollerCoaster