New Study Finds Shopping Cart Injuries Hospitalize 66 Kids Each Day In The US.

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Every 22 minutes in the U.S., an injury from a shopping cart sends a child to the emergency room, according to new research that finds voluntary safety standards fail to protect kids in the grocery store.

Between 1990 and 2011, about 530,500 children under age 15 were hospitalized due to a shopping cart-related injury, which translates to more than 24,000 children a year, or 66 children each day, according to the new study by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, published in the January issue of the journal Clinical Pediatrics.

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/01/27/health/shopping-cart-injuries-send-66-kids-to-nations-ers-each-day-study-finds/

[uppityperson]

1. shopping carts cause autism. wait, brain cancer. no, global warming. nope. the only thing that can

stop a shopping cart is a good shopping cart.
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[JaneyVee]

2. How many fatalities?

[The Midway Rebel]

3. Good luck getting one of those babies through a metal detector.

Or stuffed into a school back pack.

[Barack_America]

4. Don't even get me started on playgrounds.

And I'll remind everyone there's no constituitionally protected right to play.

[joeglow3]

10. Okaaaaay

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/school-ditches-rules-and-loses-bullies-5807957

[JI7]

5. so shopping carts still aren't as deadly as guns ?

[cyberswede]

6. Not the fault of responsible shopping cart owners, no doubt.

And the numbers would be much higher, if the study were to include adolescents aged 15-19.

[RC]

7. Obviously we need to start licensing grocery carts and grocery cart pushers.

No one under the age of 16 can push one. If that doesn't work, ban them outright.

[flvegan]

8. Screw the shopping cart humping apologists and ban these deadly things!!!

[geek tragedy]

9. Good ol gungeoneer humor--yukking it up about kids getting harmed

by something besides pistols.

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk.

Suggested design changes include improving performance standards for restraint systems and placing the child seating area near the floor. This latter design change would be safer, because it would reduce the risk of cart tip-over by lowering the center of gravity of the cart and decrease the risk of injury from falls because the child is much closer to the ground.

In addition to design changes, researchers noted that interventions designed to teach parents how to safely use shopping carts, store-wide broadcasts encouraging safety-belt use and having store employees encourage families to use the cart safety belts would also help reduce the number of shopping-cart-related injuries.

But, unsurprising for people who value guns over school children.

[GeorgeGist]

11. Shoot the phuckers ...

and skip the bullshit.

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12. Is this a worldwide trend, or a dubious distinction?