Accidents at home account for almost half of major trauma in children

Accidents at home account for almost half of all major traumatic injuries in children. Picture Denis Minihane.

Accidents at home accounted for almost half of major traumatic injuries in children, with summer months and later in the day the most common time for an incident to happen.

That is according to a report on major trauma in children, which compiled data on almost 1,400 cases between 2014 and 2019, concluding that the findings offered a chance at preventing similar occurrences in the future.