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Teen Injured In Amusement Park Accident Released From Hospital

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July 16, 2007

A Louisville teenager has been released from a Tennessee hospital, three weeks after her feet were cut off in an amusement park accident.

Thirteen-year-old Kaitlyn Lasitter was discharged on Saturday from Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. The hospital announced her release in a written statement.

Doctors at the hospital reattached Lasitter's right foot, according to a family statement released earlier this month. Doctors were unable to save her left foot.

Lasitter was injured June 21, when a cable broke on the Superman Tower of Power ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. State investigators have been trying to determine what caused the cable to break.

The statement did not say where Lasitter will undergo rehabilitation or if the family would return home to Louisville.

Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom spokeswoman Carolyn McLean says representatives of the park have tried to contact Lasitter's family several times while she was in the hospital and will renew those efforts now that she has been released.

"We hope to contact them soon," McLean said Saturday.

Lasitter's parents, Randall and Monique Lasitter, sued Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Jefferson County Circuit Court on Thursday and are asking a judge to order the park not to destroy the cable that investigators believe tore off the girl's feet.


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