Boy, 11, dies in US skiing accident
Updated on 04 January 2008
An 11-year-old British boy has died after crashing into a tree during a family skiing trip to the US.
Benjamin Trichler, from Uffington in Oxfordshire, was seen skiing too fast before hitting the tree as he went down a blue, intermediate run at the Breckenridge Resort in Colorado.
A statement released by the coroner's office in Colorado said his death was accidental and caused by a "closed head injury".
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