A 16-year-old girl was killed and a toddler was injured in a sledge accident in upstate New York on Saturday.
The pair were driving down a hill in a sledge tube in Clyde L. Burmaster Park, formerly Bond Lake Park, in Lewiston when they hit a tree at the bottom of the hill just after 10 a.m., according to the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office.
The 16-year-old was pronounced dead in a children’s hospital in Buffalo, and the 3-year-old boy was treated and released, officials said.
Local police and sheriffs closed the toboggan hill while investigating the accident.
According to the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, between 2008 and 2017, more 220,488 patients went to the U.S. emergency room for sled injuries between 2008 and 2017.
According to the organization, children were seven times more likely to be treated for sledge injuries than adults.