More ski helmets and ski safety: coroner
A renewed call to step up measures promoting the use of helmets while skiing and to improve safety on ski hills.
A Quebec coroner was looking into the death of 41-year-old Pascal Lepitre at the Bromont Ski Center over a year ago.
Lepitre was skiing on a hill classified as difficult and he wasn’t wearing a helmet. For some reason, he found himself on the part of the slope that was closed off for lack of snow and Lepitre lost control, landing head first in a ditch, bouncing off some rocks and falling about eight meters away.
Coroner Dr. Jacques Robinson is calling on ski federations, public health departments and government ministries to step up measures promoting the use of helmets while skiing. He’d also like ski patrollers, ski monitors and people training them to wear helmets to set an example.
Robinson is also calling for better ways to improve security on ski slopes and to better identify dangerous sections, such as using ropes, coloured ribbons or nets.
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