Within the last week, there have been multiple fatal school bus accidents in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Florida. Children were hit while crossing the street to board their buses and while waiting at bus stops. Although school buses are considered the safest vehicles on the road by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), how...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is taking the unusual step of forcing a manufacturer to recall a product. Britax, a worldwide manufacturer of children’s products, is being sued by the CPSC over its three-wheeled jogging strollers. According to the CPSC, it has received more than 200 complaints involving the product since 2012. Complaints...
If you’re a new parent or have ever taken care of a baby before, you know they like to put stuff in their mouths and drool all over the place. Parents are reacting with shock after finding colonies of mold growing inside their child’s Sophie the Giraffe teething toy. The baby’s saliva gets inside the...
The weather outside is frightfully cold, and you want to make sure your young daughter is warm for the ride to Uncle David’s for fireworks. So, you pack the child into a thick winter coat, cover her head and ears with a festive hat and start tucking her into her car seat. STOP. Your child’s...
Earlier this month, a 2-year-old child fell down a set of steps, into the water at Lake Travis and drowned. First responders attempted to revive the toddler and even used advanced life support measures for approximately an hour, but the toddler died. This tragedy is exactly what Colin’s Hope, an Austin organization focused on water...
Earlier this month, a 2-year-old was playing at a swimming pool while her family watched from the picnic area. Very suddenly, the toddler fell into the five-foot area of the swimming pool. According to a report filed by the toddler’s mother, the lifeguards began issuing instructions to the bystanders to go into the pool and...
Earlier this month, a couple in Katy, Texas opened the door to their SUV to find a hole in the floor, areas of the passenger seat melted and the smell of burnt plastic. After asking the local fire marshal to investigate, they discovered one of the batteries on their 2-year-old son’s light-up shoes was charred...
Last month an Austin Independent School District bus accident occurred on W. Ben White Boulevard, injuring one person. Luckily, no children were on board at the time of the accident. Texas school buses transport approximately 1.4 million students daily, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Of these, just over 1,000 are injured each...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from 2002 to 2011, 9,000 children 12 years old and younger were killed in auto wrecks. In the last year of this study, researchers found that one-third of the children killed were not wearing seat belts. This means that approximately 33 percent of these deaths...
As we get closer to the holiday season, we would like to inform our readers of a sharp rise in toy-related injuries. The most recent edition of Clinical Pediatrics reports that injuries from toys have increased by 40 percent from 1990 to 2011. On average, about every three minutes a toy hurts a child. More...
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