SLEDDING ACCIDENTS - Ron Di Lalla - Realtor -

More than 220,000 patients were treated in hospital emergency departments for sledding-related injuries from 2008 through 2017 in the United States, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. Nearly 70% of these patients were 19 and under, the study said. Collisions caused of the majority of injuries, researchers found. Almost half of all injury-causing collisions happened when the sledder hit something nearby. Collisions also hurt sledders when the sledder hit the ground, or ran into another person or sled,