A Northamptonshire personal trainer who was paralysed in an
accident on a snowmobile trip in Italy is set to hear the outcome
of her High Court damages case.
Emma Moore, from Denton, Northants, was left paralysed from the
mid-chest down after the incident during a "ski-doo sensation"
activity on a wintersports holiday at the Italian resort of
Paradiso Passo Tonale in January 2007.
The mother-of-two, now 41, claims that Hotelplan Ltd, trading as
Inghams Travel, is to blame for the accident. Her counsel, Michael
McParland, told Mr Justice Owen that her party bought the trip from
the Inghams tour rep at the airport at the trial into liability in
November.
Mr McParland said Mrs Moore was sent on a trip up an Italian
mountainside on a powerful Polaris snowmobile with virtually
nothing in the way of safety instruction and no advice on what to
do in case of emergency.
The holiday company, which denies liability, disputes that it
had any responsibility for Mrs Moore's safety on the trip and says
that any blame lies with snowmobile supplier Adriano Tantera, whose
case is that he did give proper instructions.