the heartbreaking testimony of the doctor who treated him

Gaspard Ulliel is celebrated for a last tribute at the Saint-Eustache church in Paris, this Thursday, January 27, 2022. Died following a skiing accident which occurred on January 18, 2022, the actor was however quickly taken care of by rescue. On RTL, the doctor at the Rosières station, Doctor Arnaud Bouvet, talks about the intervention: “What I can tell you is that in terms of the speed of the rescue, the trackers took one to two minutes to be in the zone. As soon as the condition deteriorated, I was called. I quickly went up to the center of the slopes and I was dropped off by snowmobile”.
The doctor tried everything: “I tried to do the best for the victim while waiting for the Samu. We medicalized the patient in two before his evacuation by helicopter”. We know the tragic outcome, despite an evacuation to the Grenoble University Hospital.

Would a helmet have saved Gaspard Ulliel?

On the question of a possible different outcome of this tragedy, Doctor Arnaud Bouvet remained pragmatic: “It all depends on the violence of the impact. Wearing a helmet might not have avoided the dramatic outcome, but the reverse is just as true”. This analysis joins that shared by the prosecutor as soon as the tragedy was announced.
According to the National Mountain Safety Observation System (SNOSM), in a report issued at the end of 2020 on the report of accidents in mountain sports in the ski area in France between 2009 and 2020, traumatic deaths in the ski area fluctuated between 8 and 14 deaths per year.