A new lawsuit accuses the iconic 55-year-old Swamp Fox roller coaster at Family Kingdom Amusement Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina of causing a man to become paralyzed from the neck down.

The lawsuit, which was filed last week in the Horry County Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court by the man's wife, accuses the park of negligence which she says led to her husband's quadriplegia.

The North Carolina couple visited the park on July 23, 2021, when they rode on the roller coaster, one of the last remaining wooden roller coasters in the nation. While on the ride, Gangia Adhikari, the victim's wife, details that the ride was “violent and rough,” resulting in her husband, Kuyl Sannyashi, experiencing a spinal cord injury that left him a quadriplegic.

The lawsuit explains, “While riding the roller coaster as a result of the negligence, carelessness, recklessness, willfulness, and wantonness of the Defendants, suffered an acute injury to his spinal cord which caused quadriplegia.”

The lawsuit names Family Kingdom Inc., Leigh V. Meese, Donnie Snipes, and Ocean Avenue Attractions LLC as defendants.

Under the state’s negligence laws, the complaint says the defendants had a duty to “inspect the premises for any latent dangers, and either remedy said dangers or adequately warn guests about them.” The park did neither, Adhikari maintains, making the ride “more dangerous than a typical roller coaster.”

Adhikari says that it was “foreseeable” that the defendant's negligence would result in injury, yet the defendants ignored such consequences.

The Swamp Fox roller coaster is one of 115 wooden roller coasters still in operation in the U.S. according to the Roller Coaster Census Report. Safety concerns are at the top of the list for their decline in operation.

The ride’s track stretches over 2,640 feet, and the roller coaster reaches speeds of up to 50 mph with heights of up to 72 feet. The coaster was built in 1966 but was later sold in 1992 to what is now Family Kingdom Amusement Park. In 2017, the coster was declared a historic structure by the city. Despite its history, countless reviews online point to the coaster's rough ride and jerky, violent movements. Many riders share that the ride was much rougher than they had anticipated.

This is not the first time visitors at the Family Kingdom Amusement Park have filed complaints about the Swamp Fox Roller Coaster. In 2019, park visitor Kelly Jacobs filed a similar lawsuit against the park because the ride was "much more rough than a normal roller coaster,” causing a previous back injury to become aggravated. In her lawsuit, she claimed that the ride was “significantly more dangerous” as compared to other roller coasters.

The judge in her case granted the defense’s request for summary judgment, and her case was eventually dismissed with prejudice.

Adhikari is seeking actual and punitive damages.