The 10-year-old girl who was airlifted in critical condition to Grenoble Alpes University Hospital after a serious skiing accident in the Villard-de-Lans resort area on Tuesday afternoon, January 21, succumbed to her injuries. .
As The Dauphiné liberated revealed on her site Tuesday evening, the little girl was riding on the blue “Chevreuil” slope when she violently hit a rock, in circumstances that investigators are trying to determine. The Grenoble public prosecutor, Éric Vaillant, indicated in a press release that the child was then on a ski outing as part of school, organized by an establishment in Villard-de-Lans, and that the group was of a level 3e star. “For a reason that remains to be clarified, it deviated from its trajectory and hit the rock wall which borders the track on one of the sides at a moderate speed according to witnesses. Despite her helmet, she suffered head trauma.”
An investigation into manslaughter opened
Alerted around 3:30 p.m. by the resort's rescue trackers who had initially taken care of her, the rescuers from the high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM) of Isère and a doctor from Samu 38 had gone on site aboard the Civil Security helicopter. They found the child in cardiorespiratory arrest but managed to get her to resume cardiac activity before her transport to Grenoble Alpes University Hospital where she was admitted to the discharge department.
-The fact remains that her vital prognosis was still in jeopardy and that she ultimately did not survive despite the care provided to her. The prosecution opened an investigation into manslaughter, entrusted to the PGHM gendarmes.