A YORK teenager who suffered a fractured skull and vertebrae after a freak snowboarding accident during a family holiday in Italy was today expected to be flown home.
Jack Robertson, 14, from Huntington, was due to leave a hospital in Turin after being eased out of a 24-hour coma following the accident at the resort of Sestriere in the Italian Alps.
The schoolboy, who will be accompanied by his parents, Steve and Sandra, was induced into a coma to prevent him causing further injury to himself after the accident.
His brother Will, 17, said that Jack had fallen off his snowboard after going over a large bump on a slope.
Although he was initially in a serious condition in intensive care, Jack began talking and eating after he was taken off a respirator on Sunday.
Updated: 14:16 Wednesday, January 09, 2002
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