{"id":186261,"date":"2026-03-10T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:25:06","slug":"injuries-from-ball-pit-dodgeball-cited-in-new-lawsuits-against-urban-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186261\/","title":{"rendered":"Injuries from ball pit, dodgeball cited in new lawsuits against Urban Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two new lawsuits have been filed against Urban Air Adventure Park in Port St. Lucie, alleging customers were seriously injured at the facility due to negligence and poor supervision. <\/p>\n

Urban Air faces new lawsuits after customers injured at Port St. Lucie location<\/p>\n

One alleged victim claims he broke his ankle after falling into a shallow ball pit. The parents of another child claim their son was hurt when someone dove at him in the dodgeball area.<\/p>\n

The lawsuits come after 6-year-old Emma Riddle<\/a> was killed in a go-kart crash<\/a> at the location on Dec. 6, 2025. The go-karts are no longer operating at the facility. <\/p>\n

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WPTV Investigates<\/p>\n

Family attorney to probe mechanical failures, training in fatal go-kart crash <\/p>\n

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Emma Riddle’s family has not yet filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Urban Air, but their attorney told me they plan to do so shortly after completing their own investigation.<\/p>\n

The owner of the Urban Air franchise has not returned calls for comment. <\/p>\n

This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two new lawsuits have been filed against Urban Air Adventure Park in Port St. Lucie, alleging customers were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[87490,80086,3858,4137,171,173,172,44160,3857],"class_list":{"0":"post-186261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-ball-pit","9":"tag-dodgeball","10":"tag-investigations","11":"tag-lawsuits","12":"tag-port-st-lucie","13":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","15":"tag-urban-air-adventure-park","16":"tag-wptv-investigates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}