A British holiday rep who died from a head injury after being hit by a skier declined to seek medical help because of the cost involved, an inquest has heard. Kayleigh Harris, 23, was working in a hotel in the resort of Les Menuires in the French Alps for the company Skibound in 2016 when a skier collided with her when she was out snowboarding.
Miss Harris, from Taunton in Somerset, had fallen and was hit a few seconds later while she was on the ground. The skier was never traced, although Miss Harris told her friends that when he apologised to her that he sounded like he had a Dutch or Belgian accent.
The impact shattered a section of her helmet, but Miss Harris was left with only a slight bump to the head and refused to go to a doctor to be checked over. An inquest in Taunton on Monday heard the hotel in which she worked, Hotel Skilt, was next to a doctor’s surgery, but Miss Harris feared spiralling costs if she were to seek medical advice.
