SHOTLIST Saint Moritz - January 20, 2008 1. Various shots of ski resort 2. Various shots of skiers going through speed controlled slope 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Iana Ierevna, Vox Pop "I think that this is very useful. Some people, as they set up on the hill, they have no idea how fast they're going. Then you come to know your own speed. And then you can think if you have the force to stop or to prevent an accident." 4. Various shots of skiers going through speed controlled slope 5. SOUNDBITE: (Swiss German) Folgo Mullhensen, Vox Pop "Slow is better but not as much as fun. As long as they keep this thing free (without fines) is good to know how fast you go. Too fast can be dangerous. I once saw a woman having an accident and she ended up crippled for life." 6. Various shots of speed campaign people talking to skiers at end of slope 7. SOUNDBITE: (Swiss German) Mark Langenegger, campaigner from insurance company SUVA "I'm not sure whether some other countries do the same activity we do here in Switzerland. We don't want to punish snowboarders and skiers like the police force do on the road with car drivers. This is aimed for prevention and to make people aware of the danger of speeding." 8. Cutaway to ski slope 9. Set up shot of Wolfgang de Bruner, ski instructor 10. SOUNDBITE: (Swiss German) Wolfgang de Bruner, ski instructor "This is something that will be going on for the whole season. It will be great if everybody goes past the sensor so they can realise how fast they ski. That would be nice, because everybody goes too fast. Nearly everybody." 11. Exterior shot of clinic 12. Various shots of ambulance arriving to clinic with injured patient 13. Various shots of doctor Georg Abemauer, head of clinic 14. SOUNDBITE; (Swiss German) Goerg Abemauer, orthopaedic surgeon "Most people are not aware of the speed they have. Statistics show that the average speed of a skier is of fifty kilometres (31 miles) per hour. Sometimes even faster. They really underestimate the power they generate. And this generates accidents and sometimes fatal injuries. For instance when you hit another skier at fifty kilometres per hour this induces into your body a force equal to a ten-metre (32 feet) free fall." 15. Various shots of patient at clinic 16. SOUNDBITE: (Swiss German) Alberto Galarso, injured skier "It is important that we check our speed. This is not my first ski accident but my third. It should be shown that there is a correlation between speed and accidents." 17. Cutaway to doctor examining patient's X Ray film 18. SOUNDBITE: (Swiss German) Georg Abemauer, orthopaedic surgeon "Speed sensors are a very good tool to give a better sense of the dangerous situation you can get yourself into due to speed. We really need to make people conscious of the very serious injuries they can suffer when speeding on a slope." 19. Wide shot of ski resort 20. SOUNDBITE: (Swiss German) Nico Bisegger, Vox Pop "I'll try to go as fast as possible, do a few curves and then I will check on the radar to make sure I didn't go too fast or create a dangerous situation." LEAD IN: Switzerland's biggest accident insurance company is trying to slow down speeding skiers. Each weekend SUVA is out monitoring people on the piste at the main ski resorts to try to highlight the dangers of going too fast. Saint Moritz, located in the south eastern area of Switzerland near the Austrian and Italian borders, recently (January 19-20) hosted one of the pilot programmes. STORYLINE: Hundred of thousands of skiers from all over the world crowd Switzerland's Alpine slopes every winter season. The average 70,000 accidents cost around $418 million US dollars of medical treatment, according to BSU and SUVA figures. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/52624f56e6a045f2d3c9c0531ff1c72e Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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