atleast 18 children under 15 years old died in toy related Accidents in 2007.
According to the consumer products safety commision data, most of this accidents took place due to the blocked airways, drowning or accidents involved with motor cycle. Many of incidents were not caused by the toys but occured while playing with them.
Fourteen of eighteen childrens were boys.
The largest number of accidents 5 were killed by tricycle accidents, 1 by fall , 1 by motorcycle accident and 3 by drowning in water while riding the cycles.
Another boy died of complications from drowning in water, 1 from getting hit by motorcyce and 2 by drowning among which 1 died of inflatable toy and other died of toy boat.
Four children choked of a rubber ball and two of children got with uninflated ballons. one boy died of inhaling rubber dart and a 6 month one got suffered from suffocation when he fell from the bed on to the stuffed toy.
Two childrens died of riding on non-motorised scooters and getting hit by car.
The agency estimates that total of 232,900 cases of injuries were treated in hospital in 2007
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