Is it just me or has the skiing accident and death rate gone up?

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So many parents have their kids take one or two lessons, or worse, teach them themselves, and then brag that their kids can go down black runs but they're not in control and are a hazard to others.

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Anonymous wrote:Darwinism at work.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I am. Seeing this. Perhaps it’s more the novices as well but also lack of training or sign posts. The poor woman was checked after her accident and cleared and then did right thing after more severe s/s and then surgery so perhaps it was surgery related? So sad! Still remember Natasha Richardson and a bunny slope but head to ice

The ones I remember are Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono because I was skiing that week.

I remember Natasha Richardson.

None of them had on a helmet.

Lynn Ban was wearing a helmet. If you watch the IG story where she's telling what happened she said so. I'm amazed that could end in death.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t find out how Lynn Ban died? she had an accident, had surgery, was posting on instagram and seemed like she was recovering/ recovered. What ended up happening??

Her husband uncovered her dead in bed after they came home from the trip. Likely a secondary brain bleed. She was wearing a helmet, but she got the tip of her ski stuck and did a face plant so it was the front of her head that apparently was not covered by the helmet.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I am. Seeing this. Perhaps it’s more the novices as well but also lack of training or sign posts. The poor woman was checked after her accident and cleared and then did right thing after more severe s/s and then surgery so perhaps it was surgery related? So sad! Still remember Natasha Richardson and a bunny slope but head to ice

The ones I remember are Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono because I was skiing that week.

I remember Natasha Richardson.

None of them had on a helmet.

Lynn Ban was wearing a helmet. If you watch the IG story where she's telling what happened she said so. I'm amazed that could end in death.

But it was the front of her head/face that hit the ground not the side/back.

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Anonymous wrote:As expensive as the sport has become, it’s clear by the expansion of slope side homes and rental properties way more people are skiing. Many of them have never had proper training and are skiing well above their ability. Too many on the slopes equate speed with skill and do not learn control. It’s analogy for society overall at this point. As the sport has gotten more expensive but expanded, you also have a lot more entitled rich people (who have little experience) doing entitled stupid things on top of not skiing within their ability. Then you have large publicly traded companies cutting corners to deliver growth in profit to shareholders, which means you may have more inexperienced mountain staff in key roles (ski patrol, grooming, maintenance, all are keys to safety).

I’d do anything to stay far away from Vail, Breck, Winter Park, Park City on a holiday weekend. The 3pm mass exodus to the base has always been harrowing but it’s become downright dangerous.

What is the reason for the timing of this? Is that when the lifts close?

Apres starts….

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The accident had nothing to do with skills in Lynn Ban's case. It was a freak accident. Natasha Richardson was the same sort of situation, but without a helmet.

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Anonymous wrote:So many parents have their kids take one or two lessons, or worse, teach them themselves, and then brag that their kids can go down black runs but they're not in control and are a hazard to others.

Yes, this. Kids and adults skiing above their skill level for bragging rights. The Ski and Snowboard crowd love to brag about themselves, and love to brag even more about their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:The accident had nothing to do with skills in Lynn Ban's case. It was a freak accident. Natasha Richardson was the same sort of situation, but without a helmet.

Yeah, Natasha was taking a beginner lesson when she fell but died later of a brain bleed.

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Accidents like Lynn and Natasha are rare…it’s why they get so much attention. As a 52 year old, I take precautions though. I only weekdays because teenagers on snowboards up my odds of a bad outcome.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I keep seeing people have awful accidents and dying this year while skiing. More than usual?
My family are all skiers but I'm starting to get really concerned.
today, Lynn Ban - and in the northeast where we are, quite a few kids have died from accidents.
Anyone else seeing this uptick?

I live in NH and I feel the same. I read my kid the riot act yesterday when he came off the mountain and his chin strap was not in the right place.

[Anonymous]

I lost a friend in high school in a ski accident, and she was very skilled at skiing, had been doing it her whole life. I remember at the time hearing or reading that skilled skiiers are more likely to die in a ski accident than inexperienced / lower skill level skiiers. I don't know if that was true but it's interesting in light of all the comments about low skill and kids skiing. I had never been skiing when my friend died, and since then I've never wanted to. I understand it was a rare occurrence, but was so freaking heartbreaking. A really sweet, responsible kid doing something she knew how to do well...

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I am. Seeing this. Perhaps it’s more the novices as well but also lack of training or sign posts. The poor woman was checked after her accident and cleared and then did right thing after more severe s/s and then surgery so perhaps it was surgery related? So sad! Still remember Natasha Richardson and a bunny slope but head to ice

The ones I remember are Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono because I was skiing that week.

I remember Natasha Richardson.

None of them had on a helmet.

Lynn Ban was wearing a helmet. If you watch the IG story where she's telling what happened she said so. I'm amazed that could end in death.

But I thought she had the surgery, survived, and was doing well- as in, posting stories on insta about what happened. And then she died like 3 weeks later- but why/ of what??

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I am. Seeing this. Perhaps it’s more the novices as well but also lack of training or sign posts. The poor woman was checked after her accident and cleared and then did right thing after more severe s/s and then surgery so perhaps it was surgery related? So sad! Still remember Natasha Richardson and a bunny slope but head to ice

The ones I remember are Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono because I was skiing that week.

I remember Natasha Richardson.

None of them had on a helmet.

Lynn Ban was wearing a helmet. If you watch the IG story where she's telling what happened she said so. I'm amazed that could end in death.

But I thought she had the surgery, survived, and was doing well- as in, posting stories on insta about what happened. And then she died like 3 weeks later- but why/ of what??

same poster, just saw someone posted that she died in bed at home later. I wonder if the autopsy will show a secondary bleed- seems so unusual to happen so much later? But what do I know. So sad.

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Good article “ Studies show that helmets reduced non-serious head injuries, such as minor concussions, by nearly 70 percent in the 17 seasons between 1995 and 2012. But to Shealy’s amazement, there was no change in the number of fatalities. “The question became,”he says, “Why aren’t helmets saving people’s lives?”
From the somber task of reviewing more than 2,000 death certificates, Shealy knows that of the average 45 people who die skiing each year, the average fatality is a male traveling at high speed on a blue run who collides with a fixed object (usually a tree).”


https://www.skimag.com/gear/50-year-stud-on-helmets-and-injury-prevention/