Radar aimed at fast Aussie skiers
Aussie skiers are having their speeds clocked by police radar at the Falls Creek ski field in Victoria, the Bulletin's Australian correspondent reports.
Police with radar guns have been stationed at the bottom of a popular ski slope at the field in an effort to help ski patrollers stem an outbreak of speed-related skiing
accidents. As in New Zealand, ski patrollers and lift company operators have the right to remove lift passes from skiers who they feel are out of control or skiing too fast.
On the slope in question skiers were averaging 40kmh as they descended the steepest part of the run, and some ski instructors had been ticked off after being clocked at 80kmh.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 446, 28 July 1992, Page 16
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