They're built for fun, but rides in amusement parks, fairs, restaurants and malls injure more than 4,400 children in the U.S. each year, according to a sweeping new study.
From 1990 to 2010, nearly 93,000 kids ages 17 and under went to hospital emergency rooms for ride-related injuries -- most during the spring and summer months, when amusement parks are busiest.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Clinical Pediatrics, relied on 20 years of data collected by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Information came from emergency department records at 100 hospitals across the country and included details about diagnoses and brief descriptions of how injuries occurred.
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