Michael Schumacher's brain injury may have been due to GoPro camera on helmet: French journalist

By Rachael Brown October 15, 2014, 8:15 am

Shares in camera company GoPro have taken a dive after a French journalist suggested it might have been to blame for Michael Schumacher's brain injury.

The 45-year-old slammed his head on a rock while skiing with his son and friends in the French Alps in December.

He emerged from a medically induced coma in June and is receiving treatment at his Swiss home.

French grand prix commentator Jean-Louis Moncet told a European radio station it was not the accident, but the camera attached, that left Schumacher in a coma.

"The problem for Michael was not the hit, but the mounting of the GoPro camera that he had on his helmet that injured his brain," Mr Moncet told Europe 1.

The French journalist was reported to have spoken to Schumacher's son Mick, but he later denied this in a tweet.

Schumacher's helmet shattered but the camera was undamaged in the accident.

London's Telegraph newspaper has previously reported that experts from ENSA, a ski and climbing school in Chamonix, have run tests to see if a solid object between a rock and a helmet would cause the helmet to smash.

No confirmation has been given by the investigators.

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Michael Schumacher's brain injury may have been due to GoPro camera on helmet: French journalist