 Poster: A snowHead
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[NB. 12 Jan. Contradictory witness accounts seem to have been given since this collision was first reported. Scroll down]
BELLUNO - A 38 year-old snowboarder died following a collision with a skier at the Dolomites resort. The skier left the injured snowboarder lying in the snow without offering any assistance. The boarder was on the Foppe black run, according to the national TV report, and was rammed at high speed by the skier. Transported to hospital by helicopter, he died from head injuries sustained in the incident.
According to the Italian press the skier has yet to be apprehended, although several witnesses on the spot have given detailed descriptions to police.
Tagesanzeiger report (in German)
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 10-01-05 12:36; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Which just proves that the idiots out there can be found on both skis and boards, I hope they catch the skier concerned and prosecute him to the best of their ability
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Whether is was or wasn't the skiers fault then lets hope they catch him and put him away for a long time.
Accidents happen but to disappear without offering assistance is sick.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Makes me wonder about getting a helmet.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Philip Prior, I think helmets are essential go and buy one
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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not being fluent in German, I don't know whether a helmet would have helped in this instance, but I would recommend them to anyone going off piste.
It is too easy to judge on the basis of 3 lines of info, but if the above report is true, it is a shocking way to behave - I cannot imagine that an impact of that nature would go unnoticed by the skier.
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If and when apprehended, the skier will be charged with:
-Manslaughter
-Failure to provide help to an injuried person
Exactly as if he had run over a passerby with a car.
Apparently, "road" laws will be used to prosecute him...
This the translation of the German report PG linked, apologies for any mistake:
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Snowboarder dies in Italy after colliding with a skier
Belluno- A 38 y.o. snowboarder has been deadly injured on a Dolomites pist as a consequence of a collision with a skier.
The skiers has left the injured and dying snowboarder on the run and has run away without providing help.
The Italian television newscast reports that the Italian (the snowboarder) was “rammed” into at high speed by the skier while skiing on a black run in a ski area near Belluno.
The snowboardfer was then brought by Helicopter to the hospital but later died due to head injuries.
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So, we will never know for sure, but "head injuries" means that a helmet would have been of help.
But, more snowboarders use to wear helmets than skiers, here in Italy...
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Opps, sorry, I didn't realize that PG had already translated it.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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An interesting article on the relative safety of boarding compared with skiing from the Great Divide. Boarders are 50% less likely to die than skiers. Also, and relevant to this topic, this writer states
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... that while 7.7 percent of all ski injuries are the result of skiers running into skiers, only 2.6 percent of snowboard accidents are caused by snowboarders running into others.
Instead, he believes that a snowboarder is more apt to be injured by a skier than vice versa.
“Every study to date … points to the fact that skiers are involved in collisions of all sorts (running into trees or other fixed objects, as well as other people) at a rate two to three times higher than are snowboarders,” Shealy said. “The simple fact is that because the snowboard is rigidly fixed to the rider’s feet, and the board stays perpendicular to the long axis of the body, when the rider falls, he or she comes to an abrupt stop and thus has a greatly reduced opportunity to slide into another person or fixed object.
“One consequence of this is that snowboarders enjoy a 50 percent lower fatality rate than do skiers.”
He adds that while he knows of at least two snowboarders who were killed by being hit by a skier, he is unaware of any skier being killed by a snowboarder in a collision. |
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Tue 11-01-05 10:15; edited 1 time in total
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Of course the problem is that there are still far more Skiers out there than boarders, thus you would expect skiers to cause more accidents than boarders, what you need to do is analyse the figures as proportions e.g if 1 in 10 skiers has an accident each holiday and 1 in 9 boarders you can say that boarders are more likely to be in an accident, but just saying of all snowsports enthusiasts X% are going to ... does not have any use
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The victim’s killer has yet to be found. Adriano Marchetto, 37 years old, from Trebaseleghe (Padova) was making one last run down the Foppe black around 4 pm when the collision occurred. Witnesses describe the hit and run offender as being short in stature, and wearing a green ski jacket. Police are putting together an identikit of the skier and are checking all lift passes issued in an attempt to narrow the hunt down. One witness gave chase, but was unable to catch up with him.
The collision was so violent that it resulted in the victim’s thorax being crushed.
Police have asked that the skier think carefully about his position and that he should surrender to the authorities without delay. He is liable to charges of culpable homicide and failure to assist a person in danger.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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How very sad for the boarder's family. And a rather depressing postscript to the 'speed kills' thread.
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PG, it takes a lot of force to crush someones thorax, assuming the boarder was upright it makes you woner what the skier hit him with, I guess their head 
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You know it makes sense.
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Also, yesterday newspaper have changed their version, according to "witnesses" it was a Snowboarder, surfing at "very high speed" who
crashed into the victim.
Also, heard today at the radi that Valentino Rossi (Moto GP World Champion) has crashed into a skier while snowboarding, the impact has
resulted in a broken shoulder for the skier, and in Rossi being under investigation by the Police for reckless boarding. A possible civil lawsuit is also rumored...
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