Child Injury Lawyer Blog
By David Wolf, Attorney
Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network
A five year old boy from West Wales, United Kingdom, fell off a child’s motorcycle that he had been given as a Christmas present. He suffered serious head injuries from the fall and died after being taken to the local hospital. The child was reportedly playing with the gift in an enclosed playground when the motorcycle accident took place. His father had taken him to the park to practice, since it was closed to automobile traffic over the holiday. Unfortunately, because the enclosed area is usually used for driving practice, it has a concrete surface. According to a neighbor, the park was locked up, but the short fence would be easy for someone to hoist a bike over. Police are calling this a tragic accident. They would not say if the child was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident.
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Teens and adults in Arizona and other states ride for hours at a time on ATVs (All Terrain Vehicles). Some teens and adults, after months or years of operating ATVs, believe that they are skilled enough drivers to avoid accidents causing personal injuries or wrongful death. Even the most simple jumps or turns for an experienced driver can turn into an accident causing serious injuries and, yes, sometimes even death. In Arizona, a 13 year old boy (Logan Walters) recently died from injuries related to an ATV accident. Logan suffered these injuries when his ATV flipped over and landed on him. His father stated that Logan made similar jumps with ease in the past. As such, the father was surprised as to how the incident took place seeing that Logan had been driving or riding ATVs since Logan was four years old.
In Connecticut, a family went snow tubing at a recreational facility. In order to use the snow tubing area, the business / recreational facility required the family to sign liability waivers which purported to release the snow tubing recreational facility from liability even if there was negligence on the part of the facility. The family went snow tubing that day and a child was injured when his foot got caught between the snow tube and a man made bank. The parents sued on behalf of the child who had a number of surgeries due to the personal injuries sustained during the snow tubing outing. The trial court threw out the case and this ruling was appealed and ultimately reached the Connecticut Supreme Court. The justices on the Supreme Court reversed the trial judge’s ruling and ruled that the liability waiver was invalid and against public policy for the State of Connecticut.
In Tacoma, Washington, a 6 year old boy -Sebastian Hizey – died when parts from a red monster truck came flying into the stand and hit the little boy. Another spectator was injured as well. The monster truck was spinning around doing donuts when parts flew 30 to 50 feet beyond and over safety barriers into the stands.