For eight days, the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 50, has been fighting at Park City’s court of law over a 2016 collision with a male skier, Terry Sanderson, 76, at Deer Valley, who got injured, and is suing the actress for some $300,000 in damage.
In court arguments, lawyers for Paltrow, 50, and plaintiff Terry Sanderson, 76, have portrayed their clients as prudent skiers, while exchanging mutual accusations as to was at fault for that crash.
Not surprisingly, Paltrow’s ski instructor’s Eric Christiansen, just like his famous client, also claimed that Sanderson was responsible for crashing into her on an easy ski run. "I witnessed him coming much faster than anybody else on the slope coming down on the hill," Christiansen said under oath.
Sanderson sued Paltrow in 2019, claiming she was skiing recklessly and crashed into him from above, causing serious injuries and emotional distress. Paltrow later countersued, claiming it was Sanderson who hit her from behind. According to the National Ski Areas Association's responsibility code, it's always the duty of the uphill skier to beware of the downhill skier.
Put differently, the downhill skier — the person who is down the slope — has the right of way. So, without any witness, Sanderson says he was the downhill skier and Paltrow ran into him from behind, while she says exactly the opposite.
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