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A $40 million judgement was awarded to the family of Tyler Turner after the 18-year-old died at California s Lodi Parachute Center in 2016, but eight years on not a cent has been paid ....
Action News has learned the driver of a crash that killed a young girl in Tulare County in 2019 will not be serving any time because she has died. ....
Action News has learned the driver of a DUI crash that killed a young girl in Tulare County in 2019 will not be serving any time because she has died. ....
Dause has been going on for years following fatalities at his facilities. In March, he was ordered to pay $40 million in connection to a 2016 double fatality at his center. In that case, Tyler Turner, a recent high school graduate, went skydiving for the first time to celebrate his friend s birthday. Turner, 18, jumped in tandem with an instructor. The parachute failed to open, and the two hit the ground. Deputies found their mangled bodies in a vineyard south of the center s landing zone. The Turner s mother Francine Salazar told the Merced Sun-Star that before her son got on the plane, he knelt down and prayed, made his peace with God, and then turned around and gave me a great-big, huge hug. ....
Woman who died at troubled Calif. skydiving center had made 2,000 jumps FacebookTwitterEmail Skydive Lodi Parachute Center. (Photograph is from the center s Yelp page, and does not depict any incident mentioned in this story.)Anthony R. via Yelp A woman who died last week in a parachute accident at the troubled Skydive Lodi Parachute Center had made thousands of previous jumps, the owner of the center said Monday. Sabrina Call, 57, of Watsonville, Calif., died Saturday when her primary parachute and her reserve chute tangled, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. The accident was under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. In a statement, the agency said skydiving investigations are limited to inspecting the parachute rigging. ....