Ten years ago, a coroner investigating the death of three-year-old India Verity at a soccer gala day in the Southern Highlands on June 28, 2003, stopped short of recommending a ban on the type of portable steel goalposts that fell on her.
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Caroline and William Verity wanted portable soccer goalposts outlawed after a set of home-made steel posts weighing 180kg toppled onto their daughter at Moss Vale.
"We are convinced that the only ultimate solution is to ban and replace those portable soccer goalposts which, if unsecured, are lethal objects," Mrs Verity said at the end of a week-long coronial inquest in Moss Vale.