tragically in a traffic accident on the Alpine Way on Saturday morning.

Tomorrow, Friday August 8, there will be a memorial service at the Thredbo Chapel at 5pm for Lauriane.

Adam Hosie, Snowsports General Manager at Thredbo said: "Lauriane was a valued member of the Snowsports team and will certainly be missed by her Thredbo friends and work mates. Her memory will live on in all those with whom she shared her passion of skiing and love of the mountains."

The 25 year old French national was travelling with two male friends on Saturday morning when their car left the road and rolled down a steep embankment.

The accident happened at about 6.30am on the Alpine Way just a short distance past the entrance to the National Park. While the driver was negotiating a bend in the road, the vehicle went onto the wrong side of the road, and rolled down the steep embankment.

Lauriane died at the scene but police said that the driver was not injured and the other male passenger received minor injuries. Both declined to go to the hospital. The two men were also employees of Kosciuszko Thredbo.

The Southern Region Crash Investigation Unit is continuing its enquiries into the accident.

The accident was the first fatal accident this winter but sadly was soon followed on Tuesday by another crash just outside Bredbo.

Emergency services continued to be kept busy throughout the weekend when a 23 year old Perth man was taken to Canberra Hospital early on Saturday morning with life threatening injuries after falling head first onto concrete below the Zen Bar in Jindabyne.

Police were patrolling close to the Zen Bar in the early hours of Saturday morning as the man started to slide down the banister outside the bar but then overbalanced falling some three to four metres onto the concrete below head first.

He was initially taken to Cooma Hospital and transferred by air to Canberra at 6.30am on Saturday morning. He is now in a serious but stable condition.