And new bill before the California State Assembly could force California resorts to nut up regarding safety. The bill, AB 1652 was created by Dr. Dan Gregorie after the snowboarding death of his 24-year-old daughter. If passed it would require California ski resorts to do the following according to a story on ConsumerAffairs.com:
• Require each employee to wear a ski helmet.
• Adopt and enforce mandatory helmet use for all patrons age 18 years and younger.
• Prepare and post annual safety plans for public access.
• Provide accessible information regarding deaths and injuries, including the what, where, when, why and how of each incident.
• Establish standardized signage for ski-area boundaries and hazard warnings.
• Provide standardized safety padding for use at lift towers and other fixed obstacles.
None of it seems all that unreasonable especially when you see how many people died last season while riding resorts.
[Link: ConsumerAffairs.com]
helmet law for teen snowboarders? At least the mountain won’t be crowded any more.
What’s next? life vest law for teen surfers?
If the DR’s daughter was 24 and hit an unpadded tower- then his beef is with the Ski Patrol and Resort that failed to pad it. Does having a law that is applied to under 18’s kinda defeat the purpose of saving 24 year olds? Am I reading this right?
What?! Fuck CA and their laws for everything. Who’s going to write the tickets? Are they going to deputize ski patrol, or just have cops hanging out at the bottom of the runs?
most of the deaths where caused by hitting trees. my friend died the same way, BUT WAS WEARING A HELMET…….SO the problem is all those darn tree’s. BAN tree’s from ski hills
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