Teenage Girl Dies In Colorado
A 14 year old girl skies into a tree on an an intermediate run in Breckenridge. She was wearing a helmet at the time but it appears she died from chest injuries. The girl, has been named as Haley Gans, from Colorado Springs. She was skiing on the Spruce Trail which is a blue run. [...]
Study: Skiers and Snowboarders Need Helmets
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Skiers and snowboarders should wear helmets to protect themselves from traumatic brain injuries, according to a new report. Head injuries account for only a small number of total injuries among skiers and snowboarders, yet they are the number one cause of death and serious injury for people engaged in these [...]
5-year-old Palm Beach girl dies
A 5-year-old West Palm Beach, Fla., girl died Monday from injuries she suffered when she hit a tree while skiing at Aspen Highlands ski area. The girl was identified by the Pitkin County Coroner’s office as Leonie Arguetty of West Palm Beach, Fla. She died at 9:37 a.m. at the Children’s Hospital in Denver. Arguetty [...]
2001-2002 ski season deaths (Colorado)
Nov. 25: 24-year-old Michael Mitchell of Carol Stream, Ill. died after he hit a tree at Keystone ski resort. Dec. 19: 56-year-old Wayne Bailey of Colorado Springs died from injuries he received Dec. 12 while skiing at Keystone. Jan. 6: Jenny Moldavina (cq), 14, of Englewood, died after she apparently skied into a tree at [...]
CU skier dies at Monarch
MONARCH _ A skier who died after hitting a tree at Monarch Ski and Snowboard Area was identified Saturday as a University of Colorado student. Landon Sawyer, 18, suffered severe head injuries when he hit a tree on an intermediate run on Friday, a Chaffee County dispatcher said. Sawyer was a member of CU’s ski [...]
Southeast Texas boy loses control on ski slope, dies
A Southeast Texas boy who died on a Colorado ski slope had lost control while on a church-sponsored trip, witnesses say. Dustin Brack of Orange died Saturday morning of head injuries at the Breckenridge ski resort. The accidental death of Brack, 11, was the second reported at Colorado ski areas this season. Summit County Coroner [...]
Arapahoe teen-ager dies in Keystone ski accident
A 14-year-old girl from Arapahoe County died Sunday after she apparently skied into a tree at Keystone Resort. The death was the state’s second skiing-related fatality of the season, an industry group said. Both deaths occurred at Keystone. Jenny Moldavina was skiing with her family Sunday morning when she “lost control and hit a tree,” [...]
Ski Helmet may have helped boy killed on slope
A 7-year-old Ohio boy killed after slamming into a tree while skiing this week may have survived had he worn a helmet, a Garfield County sheriff’s deputy said Thursday. “It might have made a difference,” sheriff’s spokesman Ron VanMeter said. Charles Heuser, of Centerville, Ohio, was skiing with his parents and brother Wednesday at Sunlight [...]
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