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In the United States, 973 children under the age of 19 drowned in 2021, and another 6,500 were treated in emergency rooms following near drowning incidents, according to Gary Karton of Safe Kids ...
According to the report, “Drowning is the number one cause of death for children 1-4 years old in the United States. Today’s study shows that drowning rates were highest among this age group.
A man trying to drown two small children at a Connecticut beach early Saturday morning was thwarted by police officers, according to authorities. An officer spotted an SUV parked on a beach in ...
The National Drowning Prevention Alliance reports that 88% of child drownings occur with at least one adult present, and 50% of children drown within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. This ...
Toddlers can wander off and fall through ice or be left out in cool or cold weather and experience hypothermia. This low body temperature is often fatal but instances of survival after a near drowning occur. Of all drowning deaths in 2013, 82,000 occurred in children less than five years old. [31]
Drowning is a type of suffocation induced by the submersion of the mouth and nose in a liquid. Submersion injury refers to both drowning and near-miss incident. Most instances of fatal drowning occur alone or in situations where others present are either unaware of the victim's situation or unable to offer assistance.
The Sangamon County Coroner confirmed Monday that a 7-year-old boy drowned in a pool at a home in the Indian Hills subdivision Saturday. The boy was unresponsive and submerged in the deep end of ...
Audrey Marie Santo (19 December 1983 - 14 April 2007), often referred to as Little Audrey, was an American girl from Worcester, Massachusetts, who, at the age of three, experienced a near-drowning accident that left her in a persistent vegetative state. Unable to speak or move, Audrey became the centre of a religious phenomenon as her family ...