With the first snow of the year now here many parents will be dreading the treacherous walk or drive to work, whilst the kids will be itching to get outdoors to fling snowballs and build snowmen. However some of the kids will be heading to the local park and sitting on anything from a dust pan lid to a car bonnet and sliding down the largest hill they can find.
Sledging is great fun and it seems to bring out the big kid in most of us adults, the thought of sliding faster and faster down a hill and seeing if you beat your family and friends this seems to bring out the primeval instinct in most people. As the adrenalin starts to pump this is when the fun turns to disaster.
There is a serious side to sledging, over the last few years several people have been killed or seriously injured in-fact only last year in Yorkshire a young bright student was killed as she slid down a hill on a homemade sledge travelling at an estimated speed of 50 MPH. She and her friends were all having fun when disaster struck they were sledging down a hill at the local park when they went too fast and out of control hitting a barbed wire fence.
Many people now know the dangers associated with this sport as in recent years many people have been taken to hospital from injuries ranging from broken legs, arms, rib’s and pelvises, that’s not including internal bleeding for bones and external objects piercing their organs.
It’s only then that we realise that sledging is a dangerous activity.
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