18 children killed in toy-related incidents
WASHINGTON At least 18 children under 15 years not new died in toy-related accidents in 2007.
The full age of these deaths were caused by dint of. blocked airways, drowning or accidents involving motor vehicles, according to Consumer Product Safety Commission data. Many of the incidents were not caused by the toys, limit occurred while the children were playing.
Fourteen of the 18 children were boys.
The largest number of children, five, were killed in tricycle-related incidents - one from a fall, undivided from a motor vehicle accident and three from drowning succeeding falling into pools while riding.
Another child died from complications days after falling into a pool while riding a battery-powered vehicle. Two drowned while playing near water - individual with any inflatable toy and another through a toy boat.
Four children choked on rubber balls and two on uninflated balloons. One boy died after he inhaled a rubber dart, and a six-month-old suffocated when he fell off of a bed onto a stuffed small matter.
Two children died after they were hit by a car while riding non-motorized scooters.
The agency estimates that 232,900 toy-related injuries were treated at hospitals in 2007.
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