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I'm willing to bet that having a pool in your yard is much more dangerous for your child than leaving them in a car with windows cracked for 5 minutes. Media d

• Pxtl 12y ago
  iirc, drowning is the #2 preventable cause of death in kids, after car accidents.
  • Fuzzwah 12y ago
    As a 1st time Dad of a 4 month old I figured I should find this list. This pdf has it broken down into age groups: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_Unintentional_Deaths_2010-a.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_Unintentional_D... This site was helpful and included an interesting little side bar: http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/NAP/overviews/ http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/NAP/overviews/ - Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of injury death overall, and especially for teens. - For infants, suffocation is the biggest risk of injury death. - Drowning is the leading cause of injury death for children age 1-4.
• notdonspaulding 12y ago
  > ... a hodgepodge of laws that attempt to prevent yesterday's headline. Oooh, nice, I'm going to steal that line. Relatedly, I think the person I'd be happiest to vote for in this day and age is someone who will introduce no new legislation, but just spend their time getting old pointless laws off the books. Think of it as an extension of "The best code you will ever write is… code you never write." I think more software engineers need to run for office.