Back to school time and the dangers of playgrounds and playground equipment

For years our firm has represented hundreds of children injured in playgrounds or on playground equipment in public parks and in our schools. The playground equipment is like a magnet to children. Unfortnately, dangers are lurking. The most widely seen danger is that the surface under climbing and sliding equipment are not adequately padded so as to prevent serious head injuries and broken noses. As we are almost at the beginning of the new school year, check with your children's school or daycare and make sure that the playground equipment is safe.

SUV Strikes, Drags N.Y. Student in School Parking Lot

 

A student was on her way to a violin lesson when she was struck by an SUV in her school’s parking lot in Colonie, just outside Albany, N.Y.

 

Audrey Saccone, a student at Colonie High School, was struck and dragged by a motorist who hit two parked cars before hitting Saccone. The student suffered multiple fractured bones and a collapsed lung and is in serious condition at Albany Medical Center Hospital.

“She has early dismissal from school so she was on her way to her car,” a friend, Jade Brewer told Capital News Nine, the Time-Warner Cable Television Station in Albany.

 

Colonie police said alcohol and speed were not factors in the accident and think the motorist, Linda Brennan, might have blacked out. Brennan, 57, is a biology teacher at another school in Colonie. She was exiting the school’s parking lot at the time of the accident.  Police have not issued a traffic citation to Brennan, according to the Albany Times-Union newspaper.