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The Disneyland Report > Disney News > 3 Suits Filed in Disney Crash Disney News3 Suits Filed in Disney CrashWreck on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain coaster killed a man and injured others in 2003By Jeff Gottlieb The parents of a 22-year-old Gardena man killed last year in a crash on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain roller coaster filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Tuesday against the amusement park's corporate parent. The suit, filed in Orange County Superior Court by the parents of Marcelo Torres, charges that Disney Co. had made cutbacks in its maintenance department and "knew, or should have known, that the design of Big Thunder Mountain was unsafe from its inception, causing numerous unreported derailments, near-misses and component part failures repeatedly over its 25-year history." advertisement Disneyland spokesman Bob Tucker said in a written statement: "We have offered a fair and just settlement [to the Torres family] and it's regrettable that the plaintiffs have resorted to making false charges." The damages sought are unspecified. Two other lawsuits resulting from the Sept. 5, 2003, crash also were filed Tuesday. One was on behalf of Vicente Gutierrez, Marcelo Torres' best friend and business partner, who suffered fractured ribs and facial bones and broken teeth in the crash. The third suit was filed for a family of Canadian tourists who alleged they suffered physical and emotional injuries in the crash. Aitken is representing the plaintiffs in all three suits. The crash, which injured 10 riders, was caused when two bolts on a guide-wheel assembly fell off, allowing the locomotive to separate from the train and partially derail. State investigators found that maintenance workers didn't understand
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