9-year-old girl breaks leg after being hit by skier in Nagano

Accidents happen on the slopes, fortunately this does not sound life threatening.

Accidents happen on the slopes, fortunately this does not sound life threatening.

Completely missing the whole point.

You never, ever just ski off after colliding with another skier on the slopes. Certainly not a little kid. Despicable act by a scumbag.

I just hope the poor little girl is no longer in too much pain and will heal completely.

Skiing off is NO Accident, and my concern of course is solely for the innocent child, as a parent I can only imagine. The scumbag will surely pay a heavy price!

"I knew I hit something but I didn't realise it was a skier," excuse incoming.

I hope she continues to love skiing, but fear that she may have lost her trust in humanity.

Parents needs to be behind and with their children on the ski slopes. Where were the parents? If they were following along protecting them this would not have happened. Busy slopes lots of people. Don’t expect people to get out of the way as they also are beginners. A child skier which might have been interfering with normal skiing getting hurt. It’s so much on the parents this one. Growing up my parents were always behind me for for these reasons. So it should be common sense.

Those saying the adult just skied off. It’s a beginner course. They probably couldn’t control themselves and frankly speaking might not even have noticed or even toughed her. The child could have just had gotten scared and fell and broke her knee. So much judgement. Murphy law. Simplest answer is usually true.

Parents often send their children to ski on the bus in order to take lessons, so hard to know if her parents were even there. Facts matter, don't assume etc.

My parents had me on the ski bus EARLY every Sat AM in the winter because they needed a BREAK, and it gives kids a chance to spread their wings so to say.

I for one can admit, often opted to 'free' ski and ditch the instructors in the afternoons especially, as that's what kids do!

The article clearly says the skier crashed into her from behind. She broke her shin bone. I can imagine that the adult was out of control, but still, they should have said something at the bottom of the slope.

Hoping that there were witnesses and a useful description.

As リッチsaid there are some of us that believe parents have a duty of care with young kids on ski slopes.

We don't know the circumstances - probably the adult skier was out of control or going too fast or whatever.

He should have stopped and assisted - but it is possible he/she weren't aware of the situation. If you have decades of experience on the slopes you would have witnessed cases where someone flies by not even physically contacting the person but scaring them enough to fall and injure themselves.

Personally my kids never left my sight unless they were following me - with mum taking up the rear. Seen too many kids - little kids - on their own or with friends just careering around the slopes, often not very skilled or aware of much going on.

Watch out for beginners going downhill out of control.

The skier who hit the girl left the scene and police are looking for him or her.

If they don't know whether it's a guy or a girl, it doesn't look promising.

Had the adult skier stayed and assisted, there likely would be no legal issues. Paying for hospital visit at the most. Still, if it's an accident, it's hard to find one party at fault. If he was skiing recklessly, that's another issue.

There is liability in cases like this one and that’s why I always purchase one day insurance when I go skiing. I am always nervous when skiing in Japan because there are lots of people who just sit in the middle of slope when they fall and they are just calling the incident to happen. I am not great skier by any stretch of the imagination, but at least I tend to move to the side when I fall.

I don’t know what actually happened and can’t blame the poor little girl since it was obviously not her fault. I just wanted to give my experience from the slopes.

I hope this is followed up and we find out who did this. Lets hope the camera's have this recorded.

Wow this reporting is about a skier doing a hit and run breaking a 9 year old leg. Usually we read about a skier running into a tree and dying on impact. I guess the skier that ran got lucky!!

My son broke his leg skiing at a kids club. It was a spiral hairline fracture of the tibia. He might have hit someone or swerved to avoid them, he was only seven at the time. He got injured again a couple of years later in a definite collision, but the xrays didn't find anything.

My main complaint was us having to take him to the hospital ourselves with a ski patrol improvised splint. A couple of weeks later, a much older girl in our eldest's class was messing about and got a nasty cut by a ski edge. She could walk fine, but the school called an ambulance, which didn't happen for my son with a broken leg.

There ws an accident on a ski slope. Wow! Literally every day. One of the people involved didn't stop. Againj literally every day.... My top tip... look for a skier. Winter sports are inherently dangerous. Some people are idiots. You re going to be on the slopes with them. Take care .

You should always get insurance. Skiers in Japan are notorious for claiming injury payments.

Accidents on slopes are inevitable for those who are over-cautious.

リッチFeb. 24 06:00 pm JST

Those saying the adult just skied off. It’s a beginner course. They probably couldn’t control themselves and frankly speaking might not even have noticed or even toughed her. The child could have just had gotten scared and fell and broke her knee. So much judgement. Murphy law. Simplest answer is usually true.

If that had been you there in agony with a broken leg, you'd just chalk it up to Murphy's Law and head to the hospital? For some reason, I just don't think that would be the case.