William and Caroline Verity have vowed to keep fighting on the issue of goal post safety after the coronial inquest into their daughter's death ended on Friday.
Three-year-old India died after being crushed by a falling soccer goal post at a gala day in Moss Vale in June 2003.
Deputy State Coroner Carl Milovanovich found that India's death was "tragic, yet avoidable", caused by head injuries after the unsecured portable goal posts fell on her and her mother.
He stopped short of recommending a total ban on portable goal posts, although counsel representing the family and the Veritys themselves had both called for a ban.
Mr Milovanovich said recommending a ban would require a deeper examination of alternatives and the impact it was likely to have on the game of soccer than he was able to make in the four-day inquest.
Outside the court, Mr and Mrs Verity told journalists that for them the inquest was only the beginning of the fight to get portable goal posts banned.
"This week it has become very clear that bureaucratic hand-wringing and memo-issuing have proven utterly useless in preventing accidents involving portable soccer goal posts," Mrs Verity said.
Full story in Monday's Southern Highland News.
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