Skiing accident in Tyrol
“Critical condition”: fears for the girl who crashed
Dramatic scenes unfolded at the weekend in the ski resort of St. Johann in Tirol (Kitzbühel district): A twelve-year-old girl disappeared, was desperately searched for and was ultimately discovered three and a half hours later in a ditch next to the piste - seriously injured and suffering from severe hypothermia. There is still concern about her state of health.
The twelve-year-old German girl was flown to Innsbruck Hospital by the Christophorus 4 emergency helicopter late on Saturday afternoon. Since then, the girl has been receiving medical treatment in the intensive care unit. She is "still in a critical condition", hospital spokesman Johannes Schwamberger told APA on Monday morning.
Daughter lost sight of
What happened on Saturday afternoon in the St. Johann ski area? A 40-year-old German - a Bavarian - was skiing down the "Rote 2" piste with his twelve-year-old daughter at around 1.45 pm. "The girl skied about 100 meters ahead of her father. When he skied over a crest, he lost sight of his daughter and thought she had continued on to the lift," the police said at the weekend.
The father initially searched desperately for his daughter himself. After this was unsuccessful, he raised the alarm. A major search operation was launched by St. Johann Mountain Rescue, the Alpine Police and the mountain railroad.
Girl lay in ditch for three and a half hours
"The missing girl was finally found by the emergency services at around 5.15 pm about 200 meters below the spot described by her father in a ditch covered in water, about 15 meters from the piste," the investigators explained.
The victim was severely hypothermic, not fully conscious and had several broken bones and polytrauma.
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