7 time Formula 1 World Champion, Michael Schumacher is said to be in critical condition critical and fighting for his life following a horrific ski accident
Michael Schumacher, the seven-time Formula One champion, is in a coma and remains in a "critical" condition after striking his head in a ski accident in the French Alps on Sunday, 29th December 2013, the hospital treating him said. The 44-year-old German was "suffering a serious brain trauma with coma on his arrival, which required an immediate neurosurgical operation", the hospital in the southeast French city of Grenoble said in a statement.
"He remains in a critical condition." Schumacher had been skiing off-piste in the upmarket Meribel ski resort, where he reportedly has a property, when he fell and hit his head on a rock, mountain police who gave him first aid said. He was airlifted to a local hospital, then to the Grenoble facility where a specialist neurosurgeon from Paris, Gerard Saillant was rushed in to oversee his treatment.
