17-Year-Old Dies in Bungee-Jumping Accident

Emergency services attended the scene and attempted to save the girl but she was pronounced dead a short time later.

A teen has died while on vacation in northern Spain after an adventure company failed to properly secure the girl during a bungee jump gone terribly wrong.

The Daily Mail reports that the 17-year-old Dutch tourist was camping with a group of friends in the town of Cabezon de la Sal in Cantabria located in northern Spain. “For reasons that are unclear, she fell from the jumping area, which was 40 metres up, into the dry part of the riverbed”.

The 17-year-old girl was killed when she jumped from a viaduct near Santander in the north of the country.

Local police chief Joaquin Gonzalez said he had not known that the activity took place on the bridge, adding that it was “extremely risky”.

The fatality is the third involving bungee jumping in less than two months. On July 21, a 23-year-old British woman died after bungee-jumping from a bridge close to the southern city of Granada.

It is alleged the incident was a result of a miscalculation of the bungee rope. The Local notes the jump supervisor and the owner of the company that facilitated the jump have been charged with manslaughter.