Harrowing pictures shows X2 rider still on ventilator two months after riding massive Six Flags 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.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story “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 t...