Browsing entries tagged with Accident
14 Jan 2021
Travellers are being warned not to be conned into paying for the new Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) that has this year replaced the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), following Britain’s departure…
4 Dec 2015
One third of skiers and snowboarders fail to check whether they have appropriate travel insurance for their winter holidays, the Foreign Office has revealed this morning. New research from the Foreign…
26 Feb 2015
New research has shown that one in seven people who goes on a ski holiday comes back with an injury — with a quarter of people injured on the slopes admitting it was because they had been skiing too…
20 Feb 2014
No one was to blame for Formula One champion Michael Schumacher’s accident in Meribel last December, crash investigators have found. In a statement, investigators said the piste marking in Meribel “conformed…
23 Feb 2013
A British schoolgirl has died after falling from a chairlift in Claviere, Italy yesterday (Friday) morning. An investigation is underway after Poonam Bhattal, 13, fell 20ft from the Col Beouf chairlift,…
21 Mar 2012
A 22-year old ski rep has died following a fall in the French resort of Val d’Isère on Tuesday 20 March. The rep was on his day off, skiing on piste with friends, when he fell and crashed into a…
11 Mar 2011
A five-year-old British boy has died after a piste-basher accident in the Spanish resort of Baqueira-Beret on 25 February. The young lad, Federico Nicholls Lopez from North London, was out playing on the…
1 Jan 2011
Officials at a ski resort in Maine, USA, are investigating why a chairlift became detached from its cables last week, sending skiers and boarders crashing to the ground. The accident happened on 28 December…
26 Dec 2010
What should have been a fun family holiday has ended in tragedy for a British man, killed when he skied into a rock. John Atkinson died in Les Deux Alpes, France, during the Christmas weekend. He was reportedly…
18 Feb 2010
A British mother of three has died following a collision on the slopes in Kaprun, Austria, during a half-term holiday with her family. The tragedy happened on a blue glacier run at Kaprun’s Kitzsteinhorn…
12 Jan 2010
More than 40 people had to be rescued from a gondola, after a technical failure left 30 cabins stranded mid-air at a German ski resort. The emergency services and mountain rescue teams were called in to…
19 Dec 2008
A gondola accident at Whistler this week has been blamed on a rare build up of ice in the tower.In a press release issued by the resort, officials at Whistler Blackcomb have said ice and water damage most…
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