TORONTO, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- An inquest into the death of an Ontario judge on the ski slopes has heard how a giant Snow-Cat snow grooming machine ran over the woman not once, but twice.
Ski supervisor Carol Love testified on March 2, 2003, she saw 66-year-old Judge Moira Caswell ski to the bottom of a hill at a resort north of Toronto, and then fall into a trench being dug by the large grooming machine.
She testified she locked eyes with the operator of the Snow-Cat, and he apparently read the panic in her eyes and panicked himself, reversing again over the downed skier.
The judge died of massive injuries after the first pass, the Toronto Sun said.
Love, a former Olympic skier for Canada, said she didn't think there was anything the ski resort could have done to prevent the tragedy. She said the judge was skiing with her head down and wasn't looking where she was going, which Love said defies the skiers' alpine "code of responsibility" posted at the resort.
