Luckily, the tool was not open at the time, and the unidentified youngster suffered only a minor head injury, cops said.
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A young girl was injured at a Pennsylvania amusement park when a utility knife fell out of a roller coaster rider’s pocket and struck her in the head over the weekend. The girl, who officials described only as a “preteen,” was with her family at Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster on Saturday when she was struck in the head by the “box cutter-type device,” East Lampeter Township police said,Luckily, the tool was not open at the time, and the unidentified child suffered only a minor head injury, cops said.
She left the park with her family before police arrived and was treated at an urgent care facility, officials said. It is not clear what roller coaster the girl was standing under when she was injured, but a Reddit user said the box cutter fell from the Kingdom Coaster,It is not clear what roller coaster the girl was standing under when she was injured, but a Reddit user said the box cutter fell from the Kingdom Coaster.The girl left the park with her family before police arrived and was treated at an urgent care facility, officials said.
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