Woman on ventilator months after alleged brain injury on Magic Mountain coaster

A 25-year-old woman is still on a ventilator two months after allegedly suffered a catastrophic brain injury on Six Flags Magic Mountain’s notorious X2 roller coaster.

Naomi Greer-Wilkinson is seen in photos surrounded by medical equipment, a breathing tube running from a tracheostomy in her neck, while another image shows her wearing a cervical collar.

Her parents, Artemis Greer and Joshua Wilkinson, say their daughter has been fighting to recover since she collapsed after going on the ride at the Southern California theme park in July, the DailyMail reported.

“She is in a respiratory hospital trying to get off a ventilator,” Greer said, according to CBS Los Angeles. “When we got there, they told us to prepare for end of life.”

The family alleges the ride caused a severe traumatic brain injury that left Greer-Wilkinson in a coma and requiring emergency brain surgery.

Doctors who treated Greer-Wilkinson and another woman injured on the ride told CNN that the brain injuries were the result of a “traumatic rapid acceleration-deceleration event” experienced while riding X2. 

Greer-Wilkinson was injured just six days after Pamela Guillen suffered a similar medical emergency on the same coaster while celebrating her daughter Camille Marquez’s 16th birthday.

Guillen said she became confused and disoriented after getting off X2 and later woke up in a hospital, where she learned she had undergone emergency surgery for a brain bleed.

“I remember seeing the fear in my daughter’s eyes and how scared she was,” Guillen said.

“I had suffered a traumatic brain injury and needed emergency brain surgery to stop the bleeding and had to be intubated. I was in a coma. I spent almost a month at the hospital.”

Her daughter recalled the terrifying moments immediately after the ride.

“We got off the cart and we saw my mom. She looked lifeless. Not a thought behind her eyes, nothing.

“She had a brain bleed. My mom had a really bad brain bleed.”

Guillen ultimately regained consciousness and has been undergoing rehabilitation, while Greer-Wilkinson remains hospitalized.

The X2 features seats that rotate 360 degrees as riders plunge down drops of up to 200 feet at speeds reaching 76 mph. The attraction has been shut down since shortly after Greer-Wilkinson’s injury. 

The latest lawsuits against Six Flags allege the coaster has design and safety problems dating back to its opening in 2002.

Attorneys representing injured riders say more than 100 people have come forward in recent months claiming they suffered some form of brain injury after riding X2. 

Six Flags has previously maintained in court filings that X2 undergoes daily inspections and that a rider using the attraction as instructed should not suffer a traumatic brain injury.

The company has declined to comment on pending litigation. 

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