Friend of family says helmet camera could be cause of Michael Schumacher’s brain injury
An F1 commentator who is a family friend of Michael Schumacher’s family said on a French radio station that the cause of Schumacher’s head injury was a camera he had mounted on his helmet.
Schumacher suffered a severe brain injury while skiing in the Alps in December. While skiing, he tumbled and hit his head on a rock.
He is out of the hospital and recuperating at a specially-designed medical suite at his home; however according to the Daily Mail he’s still immobile and unable to speak.
Jean-Louis Moncet told a radio station: ‘The problem for Michael was not the hit, but the mounting of the Go-Pro camera that he had on his helmet that injured his brain.
‘I saw his son and he told me that Schumi is waking up very slowly; very slowly.
‘Although things are going at a slow pace, he has a lot of time, I would say he has his whole life in front of him to get back on track.’
In February, the Telegraph reported that there was testing being done to Schumacher’s helmet. The helmet broke into two pieces while the camera wasn’t damaged.
However, there has been no official explanation for how the camera could have weakened Schumacher’s helmet or if the helmet would have broken apart without a camera mounted on it.
Investigators used the footage from the camera to investigate Schumacher’s crash.
“The helmet completely broke. It was in at least two parts. ENSA analysed the piece of the helmet to check the material, and all was OK,” said a source close to the investigation.
“But why did it explode on impact? Here the camera comes into question. The laboratory has been testing to see if the camera weakened the structure.”
Perhaps not coincidentally, GoPro’s shares were down approximately 10 percent on Monday, the first day of trading after word spread of Moncet’s radio appearance.
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