Toboggan: a young mother alert on a current accident in summer

A family outing that results in a second-degree burn. Here is the sad story reported by an American mother. A month ago, Dawna Wright takes her children to the John Anderson Park, a recreation base.

One of the girls in Dawna asks to join a toboggan a little further. Before accepting, the mother checks the playground and detects nothing suspicious. However, when her daughter settles on the toboggan, the mother of the family understands that something serious is going on.

68 ° C recorded in the evening

"I never heard her screaming so loudly", she reports to our confreres of Huffingon Post . Her four-year-old daughter has blistered skin, burned to the second degree . "I badumed everything was safe because there were lots of kids playing and doing well," Dawna complains in a Facebook post.

But there were signs warning of the risk of burns next to the facilities. . They also recommended wearing a covering suit. But e n summer, the park offers jets of water to refresh the visitors. To enjoy it, most children are in swimsuits. The girl did not get dressed until she got on the toboggan.

"I hope that no parent will ever make my mistake and think about checking ramps," she says. After the accident, the mother returned to measure the temperature of the offending toboggan: 68 ° C in the evening . Burning can occur from about fifty degrees

Other reported incidents

Slides can be the cause of many other accidents, in toddlers or older children. The Daily Mirror reported the case of an 18-month-old child with a leg injury

The youngster ran down the toboggan ramp into his mother's arms when the accident occurred . His foot got stuck under his mom's leg during the descent. Result: fracture and plaster for two weeks . Several deaths have also been reported following falls in water slides, including water parks.

Finally, inflatable slides are not immune to disasters. In 2006, Express narrated the incredible accident that took place in an amusement park of Doubs (Burgundy-Franche-Comté). A "micro-tornado" had carried away the inflatable slide on which several children were. Eight of them had been wounded, one of them at the femoral neck.