Stephane Bozon is the commander of the Gendarmerie d’Haute Montagne of Chamonix, a unit with a ski accident is familiar. On december 29, 2013, he received a phone call that an accident had occurred on the slopes of Méribel. “A bergredder called me on the phone,” says Bozon. “He told me that there is a skier on his head was landed. The man had serious injuries incurred. I immediately decided to take a helicopter to the scene of the accident to us.”
Bozon knew from the beginning that the rescue helicopter was on the way to a celebrity. “I was aware of who it was, yes. They had told me that Michael Schumacher was. Natúúrlijk I knew him as the great F1 champion. Not that his status the reason was to immediately take a helicopter to send out. That we had with another person.”
Schumacher crashed nààst the ski slope. “On a hard-to-reach place for people who him, the first sure wanted to administer,” says Bozon. “We knew immediately that he very was. Otherwise, we had no helicopter sent. It was important to him, even at the place of the accident, with the utmost caution to transport. Schumacher has in fact been very lucky. The accident happened right in the season, in a period that there is often times a day a helicopter should be deployed. In addition, our service for multiple ski resorts responsible. Fortunately, there was immediately a helicopter available, we did not have to wait. It had for Schumacher much worse can expire if we are not so quick had been with him.”