A child safety advocate warned that teens often feel more independent, but they run the same risks of injury even when they’re close to their homes while playing outside.
Troopers said the 14-year-old from Green Cove Springs, who died at the hospital, was not wearing a helmet when he fell from the skateboard on Plantation Ridge Parkway near Evening Breeze Lane just after 8:30 p.m. Saturday.following a fall from an electric skateboard in Clay County, a child safety advocate offered a warning for parents.
Jessica Winberry, the prevention coordinator for Wolfson Children’s Hospital and Safe Kids Northeast Florida, a coalition dedicated to child safety, said she is familiar with incidents like this. Winberry warned that teens often feel more independent, but they run the same risks of injury even when they’re close to their homes while playing outside.“That’s something that we see sometimes even with little kids,” Winberry said. “We’re just kind of riding in our cul-de-sac or something, but we still run the same risk of injury no matter where we are.”
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