Actress brain dead after accident

The Wicked One wrote:Actress Natasha Richardson was flown to New York City from Canada yesterday in a serious condition with head injuries suffered in a skiing accident, the New York Times reported, citing two people close to her family.
Richardson’s condition is very serious and her family is highly distressed, the newspaper cited the unidentified people as saying. The plane arrived in New York late yesterday, they said, declining to say where Richardson was being treated.
The 45-year-old actress, married to actor Liam Neeson, is the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson, who died in 1991. Neeson was seen crouched inside an ambulance beside his wife yesterday at Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur in Montreal as she lay wrapped in blankets with tubes around her face, the newspaper said.
There were conflicting reports about Richardson’s medical condition yesterday, and by evening, the nature and gravity of her condition couldn’t be officially confirmed, according to the NYT. United Press International earlier said the actress died, citing a report on OK Magazine’s Web site.
Redgrave was seen walking into New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital wearing a scarf and looking somber at 8:40 p.m. yesterday, the NYT said. The hospital said it wasn’t treating any patients with the last name “Richardson” and an after business- hours voicemail left by Bloomberg News with Neeson’s agent, Alan Nierob, wasn’t returned.
Richardson was taking a lesson on a beginner’s slope when she fell at about 3 p.m. two days ago. Her instructor called the ski patrol, which came to Richardson’s aid, said Catherine Lacasse, the public relations supervisor for Mont Tremblant Resorts.
“She was awake and alive and laughing and breathing,” Lacasse said. “She refused to see a doctor. She said she was fine and everything was OK.”
When she started having headaches about an hour later, Richardson was taken by ambulance to a hospital about 20 minutes from the resort, the NYT said.
The U.K.-born Richardson has appeared in films such as “The Parent Trap,” “Patty Hearst” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Richardson won a Tony Award in 1998 for her role in the Broadway musical “Cabaret.”