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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Sun Dec 29, 2013, 05:26 PM Dec 2013

Michael Schumacher in 'coma', critical after ski accident

LYON: Michael Schumacher, the seven-time Formula One champion, is in a coma and remains in a "critical" condition after striking his head in a ski accident in the French Alps on Sunday, the hospital treating him said.

The 44-year-old German was "suffering a serious brain trauma with coma on his arrival, which required an immediate neurosurgical operation", the hospital in the southeast French city of Grenoble said in a statement.

"He remains in a critical condition." Schumacher had been skiing off-piste in the upmarket Meribel resort, where he reportedly has a property, when he fell and hit his head on a rock, mountain police who gave him first aid said.

He was airlifted to a local hospital, then to the Grenoble facility. A specialist neurosurgeon from Paris was rushed in to oversee his treatment.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/racing/top-stories/Michael-Schumacher-in-coma-critical-after-ski-accident/articleshow/28118905.cms

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Michael Schumacher in 'coma', critical after ski accident (Original Post) jakeXT Dec 2013 OP
don't sound good. nt BootinUp Dec 2013 #1
best driver of my life backwoodsbob Dec 2013 #2
I despised him as a driver... truebrit71 Dec 2013 #3
 

backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)
2. best driver of my life
Sun Dec 29, 2013, 06:17 PM
Dec 2013

and he made a great Stig too.

Hope he makes it.he seemed like as normal a guy as you could be in that life

 

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)
3. I despised him as a driver...
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 01:14 PM
Dec 2013

...and will never forgive him for what he did to Damon Hill, and tried to do to Jacques Villeneuve...but I sincerely hope he survives and gets better...

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