With the weather warming up more kids will be swimming.
Pools and kids scare me to my core. Just this week I had a conversation with a woman about Fix The Toaster, I asked her if she knew that car crashes are the number one cause of death to kids. She said, no, she thought pool drowning would be. No, I said, car crashes.
But I wanted to know the statistics, so here you go.
Every day, about ten people die from unintentional drowning. Of these, two are children aged 14 or younger. Drowning ranks fifth among the leading causes of unintentional injury death in the United States.1 CDC
So according to the Centers for Disease, 2 kids, under the age of 14 die daily in drownings.
5 kids die daily in car crashes.
As the weather warms you will no doubt hear about kids drowning in pools. It is a sick fact and it frightens me of course.
But you will not hear of the kids dying in car crashes nearly as much.