Trainer injured in ski-doo accident claims £300k damages
A personal trainer who was paralysed in a ski-doo accident on a wintersports holiday has filed a £300,000 accident claim.
The victim was three days short of her 38th birthday, when she was injured on the snowmobile trip at an Italian resort in January 2007.
The mother-of-two, of Denton, Northants, claims that the holiday department is to blame for the devastating accident, which left her paralysed from the mid-chest down.
Her injury lawyer, Michael McParland, told Mr Justice Owen at London's High Court, that her party bought the trip from a representative.
The "ski-doo sensation" offered the chance to "feel like 007 in the mountains...taste the adrenalin of driving your own snow-mobile over the mysterious evening pistes".
The case files that the claimant is suing for more than £300,000 in compensation, because she was given "very brief and wholly inadequate" instructions by the rep, which took place outside in the dark.
During the 30-second briefing, she was shown the accelerator and brake lever but not the emergency stop button, and was given no safety warnings or related information at all.
She said in her statement: ''It just seemed to go faster and faster and it was at this point that I realised we were going to crash.''
The holiday company, which denies liability.
Updated on 04/11/2009