Analyzing 5 years of injuries, crashes and hit-and-runs at Colorado ski areas

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Analyzing 5 years of injuries, crashes and hit-and-runs at Colorado ski areas

Silas Luckett doesn’t really remember the crash. The skiers behind him on the blue run at Breckenridge called ski patrol when they saw the 13-year-old skier veer into the trees at a high speed. When patrollers reached Silas, he was unconscious and breathing poorly. The patrollers bundled him up in a sled behind a snowmobile and raced him down to the emergency clinic at the base of the ski area. There were nurses, technicians and two doctors wait…