British woman, 59, dies in snowboard tragedy

She was airlifted to sanatorium though never regained alertness and died in
hospital, usually a week after her 59th birthday,

David, her husband, said: “One notation all is fine, you’re all enjoying
yourselves, shouting and joking.

“The subsequent notation Sandra was comatose and never came around.

“I’m positively stunned, we all are. We’re struggling to know how it
happened since it was an harmless tiny fall, that creates it so tough to
comprehend.”

Mr Thompson, a handling partner during a solicitors’ firm, added: “On a Monday
we went adult a mountain, had lunch and went adult to a tip to do a easier,
blue run and pronounced ‘We’ll have an easy run down and usually suffer it.’

“Sandra pronounced to me ‘You go forward and I’ll locate we up’. we went forward and
waited though when we looked behind we couldn’t see her.

“My youngest son, Christopher, was snowboarding with her and she usually went up
a tiny arise and defeated retrograde and strike her conduct on a snow.

“She was wearing a helmet and my son was with her within 10 seconds, though she
was already unconscious.

“He waved for me to come behind and we walked behind meditative her snowboard had
damaged or she’d had a teenager fall.

“But by a time we got there they had already called a atmosphere ambulance.

“They spent about half an hour with her on a slope, putting adrenalin and
oxygen into her, though we could tell it wasn’t good. It was horrible.”

Mrs Thompson, from Chandler’s Ford, nearby Southampton, Hants, was airlifted to
Innsbruck University Hospital, where she was put on a ventilator.

Doctors kept her on life support for roughly 48 hours though tests after revealed
she was pang from serious flourishing during a behind of a brain, famous as a
subdural hematoma, and there was zero that could be finished for her.

The collision took place on Feb 6 though sum have usually only emerged.

Mr Thompson said: “She was always there for myself and a boys. The house
feels so dull but her.”

The integrate met in Cornwall, where Mrs Thompson was born, in 1969 and they
married in 1977.

Mrs Thompson worked as a clergyman in Cornwall and Cheshire, before a couple
changed to Hampshire in 1982.