A woman plunged to her death from a height of 75ft while on a rollercoaster ride with her daughter and son-in-law watching.
The incident sparked terror across the world nearly 10 years ago, back in July 2013, when it was reported that Rosa Ayala-Gaona Esparza had died after falling from the Texas Giant rollercoaster at the Six Flags amusement park in Texas, US.
It was reportedly the first time the woman, initially identified by her family as Rosy Esparza, was visiting the theme park.
The 52-year-old went on board the 14-story-high rollercoaster sitting in the second car by herself, with her daughter and son-in-law in the seats in front of her.
What followed after the ride started, would traumatise the family forever.
According to a police report, early in the ride her daughter turned around and looked at her mother.
She saw her almost completely upside down with her head near the floor and her feet almost straight up in the air, the report states.
As the ride began its third ascent, Esparza's daughter saw her mother being tossed out of the car, the police report states.
It reportedly took firefighters an hour to find her body, and when they did, it was nearly severed, on the roof of the Honky Tonk tunnel, which covers a lower track of the ride.
The grim report stated: "The decedent's body was partially wrapped around support beam #471, with her lower body on top of the roof and her nearly severed upper body hanging over the south side of the roof."
Blood and body tissue were scattered on the tunnel roof and on the ground over about a 75-foot area below Esparza's body, the report said.
Witness Carmen Brown said she watched the woman falling from the ride.
She told WFAA, "She goes up like this," raising her hand up in the air.
And added: "Then when it drops to come down that's when it released and she just tumbled ... and I said, 'That could have been me, because I don't do rollercoasters.'"
John Putman said he was standing in line behind Esparza for an hour and that she, her daughter and son-in-law were "laughing and talking" during this time.
He didn't witness the fall but said the victim's son-in-law was clearly distraught when the ride returned to the loading platform. "He was saying 'She fell! she fell!'," John's wife recalled.
Esparza's family settled a lawsuit against Six Flags as well as the German ride maker late in 2014, with an undisclosed amount.
Six Flags said in a statement at the time that all sides had reached an agreement, while an attorney for the ride maker said the settlement included a payment to the plaintiffs but no determination of fault.
