You have to hand it to government workers, when they try an make things safer, they only make it more dangerous. A case in point is the tragedy that happened this weekend at Mount Charleston, when an 11 year old girl died after she hit a fence that was meant to keep sleeders safe, instead helped kill her.
From the LVRJ: A girl who died Tuesday while sledding on Mount Charleston crashed into a solid metal fence installed last fall with the intent of making sledding safer by keeping people out of an off-limits area.
The girl, identified by the Clark County coroner as Vanesa Lara, 11, was flown to University Medical Center, where she died of heart injuries....
Jose Hernandez, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, said Vanesa was riding on the sled with another child, who was not injured, when they hit the fence. He said Vanesa's parents were with her on the mountain....
Police officers at the scene Wednesday said Vanesa was sledding in the upper Meadows area, and hit the end of a metal fence that was installed in October in the middle of the sledding area. There are signs posted in the area warning against sledding up-slope from the fence, said Erik Pappa, a Clark County spokesman. http://www.lvrj.com/news/girl-dies-from-sledding-into-fence-recently-installed-to-block-sledders-185487741.html
So, instead of making the fence out of a softer material, like wood, plastic or hay bales, they made it out of unbending metal.
And anybody who goes up do the ski/sledding area on the mountain know that kids don't read the no trespassing/sledding signs.
Yes, the parents do share some responsibility for allowing the sledding to be so close to the fence, but Clark County is more responsible for putting up a metal fence instead something softer.
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