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Tess de La Mare
Tue, 9 August 2022 at 5:20 pm


A young holiday rep who died from a head injury after being hit by a skier declined to seek medical help because of the cost involved, an inquest has heard.

Kayleigh Harris, 23, was working in a hotel in the resort of Les Menuires for the company Skibound in 2016 when a skier collided with her when she was out snowboarding.

Miss Harris, from Taunton in Somerset, had fallen and was hit a few seconds later while she was on the ground.

The skier was never traced, although Miss Harris told her friends that when he apologised to her that he sounded like he had a Dutch or Belgian accent.

The impact shattered a section of her helmet, but Miss Harris was left with only a slight bump to the head and refused to go to a doctor to be checked over.

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the hotel in which she worked, Hotel Skilt, was next to a doctor’s surgery, but Miss Harris feared spiralling costs if she were to seek medical advice.

Medical bills for minor injuries could quickly exceed £600, her colleagues said, which was about what they were paid each month.


More details at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/holiday-rep-23...19306.html
Wonderful capitalist world!

RIP!
Life is about choice.
You make the wrong choice.
You got to blame yourself.
Who knows she could still have died after going to hospital and incurring the costs. Doctors are not omnipotent. Blood clots in the brain can be difficult to treat.