So fed up of stories like this every single year. Stupid bloody Skiing.

This really depends on the person.
If people have annual policies with Winter cover it does tend to include the UK - ours does.
If doing a lot of back country skiing which is what it's considered to be then many who do this have specialist insurance like BMC.

We don't have it for the rescue/snow patrol lift off the mountain but incase of injury/inability to work etc.

Is this the database you are quoting? https://health-infobase.canada.ca/winter-sport-injuries/alpine-skiing.html

If yes, I think you have misinterpreted the data. Of those who sustain an injury, 43.3% are aged 10-14.

43% of 10-14 year olds do not sustain injuries.

I don’t tbh. I don’t even know where I’d buy such a thing. Tbh if you were in a serious accident it’d be an air ambulance to NHS hospital. Anything less would be a first sided on site and getting in a car or possibly an ambulance to local hospital. I don’t really think insurance would cover you if you could get nhs treatment. I think you can get insurance for the kit and I have a friend who is a dentist who has his hands insured against breakages and injuries.

Ladders, stairs, taxi i can get how accidents happen.
But how did someone even end up in icu from sex?

Everyone that goes abroad to ski, mostly, pays for winter sports cover, as do all the school trips. There might be a few young groups that don't but everyone I know that goes skiing has comprehensive winter sports coverage. And all the medical care is done in situ if needed or helicoptered to in country hospitals. The idiots without insurance would also get that, and then sent a huge bill. NHS might get a bit of physio when they get back I guess. But no one is rocking up in an English A&E with an injury they sustained in the Alps.

I have never skied in the UK and imagine that is generally people up in Scotland. Not sure what happens there? Do you have winter sports insurance skiing scots?

I worked in Neuro ICU, for goodness sake OP, don't ever go up a ladder, up the stairs, in and out of a taxi or have sex!

Everyone that goes abroad to ski, mostly, pays for winter sports cover, as do all the school trips. There might be a few young groups that don't but everyone I know that goes skiing has comprehensive winter sports coverage. And all the medical care is done in situ if needed or helicoptered to in country hospitals. The idiots without insurance would also get that, and then sent a huge bill. NHS might get a bit of physio when they get back I guess. But no one is rocking up in an English A&E with an injury they sustained in the Alps.

I have never skied in the UK and imagine that is generally people up in Scotland. Not sure what happens there? Do you have winter sports insurance skiing scots?

I grew up in a skiing family and one of my DC worked in the mountains running ski lifts. He says that by far the biggest cause of accidents is reckless skiers (usually young men) going far too fast and injuring themselves and sadly sometimes the people they ski into. In North America reckless skiers can have their lift passes confiscated. Sadly this doesn't happen in Europe. Tragically it appears that the young man who died was going very fast and lost control resulting in a freak accident. His poor family must be absolutely devastated.

I worked in Neuro ICU, for goodness sake OP, don't ever go up a ladder, up the stairs, in and out of a taxi or have sex!

I know a very young man who died of a brain hemorrhage. He'd already lost a sibling to cancer. His manta was 'live every day as if it were your last'

There have been some scare mongering posts on here. Making me nervous about out next holiday.
But I'll always keep Safety in mind both my kids are good skiers. We all wear helmets. And remember he died in his bed.

'Live every day as if it were your last'

Only idiots live every day as if it were your last.
Alcoholism and massive drug use here I come, plus riding a motorbike with no helmet to feel the wind in my hair!!

I know someone who died young on a hot day running a marathon who had a slight undetected heart problem.

@Nanny1983

Maybe everyone who does extreme sports should be made to have proper insurance at all times so that our NHS isn’t picking up the costs if people want to go ahead and do these dangerous sports.
I know people go abroad and take out insurance but what about people who do the sports in the uk ?

Sure. As long as the plan extends to smokers, drinkers and the overweight.

OP the fact is over half of all accidental deaths in the UK take place within the home. And for some reason people are falling over a lot more. RTAs are also increasing, despite safer cars. It's people not properly taking care in any activity not the activity itself. You are statistically more likely to die accidentally now than twenty years ago the ROSPA report makes for interesting reading.

The marathon runners - cardiac arrest is usually an undiagnosed heart condition that causes the death. Sometimes there can be factors like heat etc which has caused death. And it's not "almost always at least one" runner a year. There's been 13 deaths since 1981. That's one every 3 years. So you are suggesting it's a lot worse than it actually is.

www.rospa.com/news-and-views/preventable-accidents-in-the-uk-are-rising#:~:text=The%20rate%20of%20accidental%20deaths,up%2056%25)%20since%202013.

I was a ski rep for a while and yes this was my experience

We could predict which clients arriving would have an accident by the end of the week, it was always in the groups age 20-35 and usually a lad. Generally a wide variation in the skiing level among the group but the less experienced didn’t want lessons of course 🙄🙄. They went out drinking till late and skiing the next day. Thankfully it was just themselves they hurt IME and nothing serious.

I want my kids to learn to ski partly because we love it and I believe it’s far easier to learn as a child, but partly for safety reasons. People who go on their first ski trip as a young adult are much less safe IMO as young adults are inclined to ditch lessons asap and be more reckless. Better they know how to ski before that point.

If you are a regular and seasoned runner you are probably right. I imagine most of the problems in marathons are from people who have trained intensively for their first ever marathon from not having had much history of long distance running previously, and perhaps over-extended themselves.

I grew up in a skiing family and one of my DC worked in the mountains running ski lifts. He says that by far the biggest cause of accidents is reckless skiers (usually young men) going far too fast and injuring themselves and sadly sometimes the people they ski into. In North America reckless skiers can have their lift passes confiscated. Sadly this doesn't happen in Europe. Tragically it appears that the young man who died was going very fast and lost control resulting in a freak accident. His poor family must be absolutely devastated.

I grew up in a skiing family and one of my DC worked in the mountains running ski lifts. He says that by far the biggest cause of accidents is reckless skiers (usually young men) going far too fast and injuring themselves and sadly sometimes the people they ski into. In North America reckless skiers can have their lift passes confiscated. Sadly this doesn't happen in Europe. Tragically it appears that the young man who died was going very fast and lost control resulting in a freak accident. His poor family must be absolutely devastated.