Vera Mol, a 17-year-old from the Netherlands, was standing on a 130-foot-high bridge on Spain’s northern coast, bracing for her first bungee jump. 
 
 It was 8:30 p.m., and she was the last in a group of 13 teenagers to go, when the instructor gave a command. 
 
 “No jump, it’s important, no jump,” he said in English, according to court documents. But Ms. Mol, apparently misunderstanding his pronunciation, heard, “Now jump.” She threw herself from the ledge — and plunged to her death. The harness she was wearing had not yet been secured to the bridge. 
 
 This month, an appeals court in Cantabria, in northern Spain, upheld a ruling that the instructor for Aqua21 Aventura, the company that had organized the bungee jump in August 2015, could face criminal charges, including accidental homicide, should prosecutors decide to proceed with the case. ||||| A Spanish bungee jumping instructor's "poor English" contributed to the 2015 death of a Dutch teenager who leaped from a bridge before her rope was attached, a judge has said, ruling his employer will face prosecution. 
 
 Vera Mol, 17, died in August 2015 when she jumped from a viaduct on a highway in Cantabria as part of a group trip organised by a local adventure sports company. 
 
 The girl had misunderstood an instruction from the instructor to "No jump" as "Now jump", when he in fact intended to say "don't jump", the judge wrote in the ruling reported by EuropaPress. ||||| A 17-year-old girl who died after a botched bungee jump from a bridge in Spain was killed in part because of her instructor’s “poor English”, a court has ruled. 
 
 Dutch national Vera Mol died in August 2015 when she went bungee jumping with a group of teenagers outside Cabezón de la Sal, in Spain’s northern region of Cantabria. 
 
 The teenager died when she jumped from a road bridge before her rope had been secured to anything, after her instructor said “no jump”, which she may have heard as “now jump”. 
 
 The instructor has appeared before a court in Cantabria accused of causing the teenager’s death. The director of the company that organised the bungee jump will now face prosecution for homicide through negligence, The Telegraph reported. 
 
 “The use of the poor English ‘no jump’ could perfectly well be understood as an explicit order to jump by the victim,” the judgement read. 
 
 Bungee jumping from the road bridge is allegedly banned under Spanish regulation. (YouTube) 
 
 Vera’s death could have been avoided had the instructor used the phrase “don’t jump”, the court heard, which is reportedly the correct terminology, according to the Daily Mail. 
 
 The judges on the case added that the instructor should also have checked the teenager’s ID that she was over the age of 18. 
 
 It was also alleged that bungee jumping from the road bridge is banned under Spanish regulation.
– A simple mispronunciation possibly cost a teenager her life in a bungee jumping accident, a Spanish appeals court ruled this month. The Independent reports 17-year-old Vera Mol of the Netherlands died in 2015 after jumping from a bridge in Spain before her cord was secured to anything. According to the New York Times, court documents state an unnamed Spanish instructor told Mol in English: "No jump, it's important, no jump." The appeals court ruled it's clear Mol could have heard "now jump" due to the instructor's "incorrect use and pronunciation of English" as she immediately leaped from the bridge. The court ruled the instructor should have said "don't jump." The Daily Mail notes protocol called for the instructor to say exactly that. The ruling clears the way for the instructor to face criminal charges, including accidental homicide, should prosecutors choose to bring them. The Telegraph reports the director of the company that employs the instructor will face prosecution for homicide through negligence. The court found a number of faults with the company beyond ruling the instructor didn't speak English well enough to instruct foreigners in something as dangerous as bungee jumping. It states Mol was not attached to a safety line on her way to the ledge, the instructor didn't check for parental consent as Mol was a minor, the company didn't have proper permits to jump from the 130-foot-high bridge, and more. (Girl survives 3,500-foot fall, wins $760,000.)