Snow Tubing Accidents

Snow tubing is ostensibly the least dangerous of the winter sports. It is to skiing and snowboarding what riding an inner tube down a lazy river is to swimming or water skiing. At some ski resorts, there are snow tubing trails, equipped with barriers so that the tubes cannot veer off course into rougher terrain. If you are looking for a faster-paced snow tube ride, a snowmobile can tow the tube in much the same way that boats sometimes tow inner tubes on the water. Snow tubing can, however, enable you to gain enough speed that a collision can cause severe injuries. People who get injured in snow tubing accidents may be entitled to compensation for their injury-related financial losses if they file a claim against the party or parties responsible for causing the accident or failing to prevent it. Sometimes snow tubing accident claims fall under the category of premises liability, if the injured person paid admission to a snow tubing venue where conditions were so unsafe that snow tubers who exercised reasonable caution got injured. If you got injured in a snow tubing accident in South Carolina, contact a Columbia personal injury lawyer.

Colleton County Girl Survives Life-Threatening Injuries After Snow Tubing Accident

Abbagale Jacques is recovering from injuries that are usually not considered survivable. In the past, she was a competitive barrel racer, and she hopes to return to barrel racing at some point in the future, but the sport that separated her past from her present was snow tubing. In early 2025, when Abbagale was in high school, she was involved in a snow tubing accident that left her with life-threatening injuries that trauma surgeons describe as a “polytrauma,” which is a medical term for multiple traumatic injuries stemming from the same incident. Abbagale had bone fractures in almost every part of her body, but the most dangerous injury was a laceration to her aorta. The aorta is the main artery that carries blood from the heart to the other arteries and, from there, to the various body parts. Aorta injuries usually cause patients to lose blood so quickly that they are pronounced dead at the scene of the accident or die shortly after arriving at the hospital, but first responders acted quickly, and the trauma surgeons at Medical University of South Carolina were able to repair Abbagale’s aorta injury in time to save her life.

A year after the accident, Abbagale is out of the hospital and uses a custom-built wheelchair. She still has a long recovery process ahead, but her survival and recovery are truly a medical miracle. No additional information was available about the circumstances that caused her accident or the treatment that she will still need.

Let Us Help You Today

The personal injury lawyers at the Stanley Law Group can help you get justice after a snow tubing accident.  Contact The Stanley Law Group in Columbia, South Carolina or call (803)799-4700 for a free initial consultation.

Source:

musc.edu/content-hub/News/2025/03/05/trauma-team-works-quickly-to-save-girl-hurt-in-snow-tubing-accident