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A woman who drove under the influence of strong prescription drugs and failed to fasten her children’s seat belts has been charged in connection with a car accident she caused that injured both her children, according to ABC’s WQOW 18 news website. Investigators believe that the Wisconsin mother put both children in car seats but [...]
Some of the leading causes of head injuries in young children are falls from shopping carts, according to a report from the WIBW news website. The majority of injuries from shopping carts in the U.S. involve children from ages one to two, with those injuries ranging from head and brain injuries to broken bones. According [...]
The parents of an 8-year-old son who suffered pediatric traumatic brain injury after a 2006 accident, Dawn and Kurt Schessl have become advocates for other child brain injury victims, according to the Catholic Courier online. The creators of a nonprofit organization aimed to help other families cope after a child brain injury, the Schessls focus [...]
Charleston, West Virginia is holding a conference on child brain injuries early this November in hopes to address the “silent yet serious epidemic” of brain injury to children, according to The Journal online. Titled “My Child Has a Brain Injury: Information for Families and Schools,” the conference will host keynote speaker Ron Savage, president of [...]
According to the Union-Bulletin Editorial Board, more and more children (at least in the board’s area of Walla Walla, Washington) are riding bikes without wearing helmets. The board believes that the decreasing numbers of children wearing helmets while riding bicycles is due in part to a lack of emphasis on the importance of safety while [...]
The recent loss of a toddler girl due to drowning in El Paso, Texas, added to the year of tragedy suffered by residents in El Paso County. According to the KDBC 4 news website, this incident of the 4-year-old girl’s drowning in her family’s backyard pool is the seventh child drowning incident in 2009 for [...]
Following a tragic car accident that resulted in fatal brain injuries to her 4-month-old boy, mother Jessica Malcolm filed a lawsuit against Evenflo, the manufacturer of the child car seat her son was riding in at the time of the crash. According to an article from Benchmarks/Lawyers USA, Malcolm received the child safety seat from [...]
