A four-year-old boy fell about nine meters from the second floor through a fly screen in Weyer. Upper Austria in particular is hit hard by such accidents, says a safety expert. How such dangerous incidents could have been prevented.
The next day, a gruesome scene occurred in Weyer: the fly screen, from which a boy (4) fell nine meters on Monday, was still hanging torn off in the window. However, none of the neighbors wanted to comment on the accident based on Tuesday’s account.
Hit the asphalt
According to the police, the four-year-old had apparently climbed from the bed onto the windowsill in the bedroom while his mother (26) was sitting on the toilet. He must have leaned against the screen in the open window. It gave way and the boy fell from the second floor and landed on the asphalt.
After being flown to the intensive care unit of the Kepler University Hospital in Linz with life-threatening injuries, good news arrived from there on Tuesday: “There is no danger to his life. The boy can probably be transferred to the normal ward on Tuesday or Wednesday.”
Lockable window handles
The accident is not an isolated incident: “A lot of windows have been broken recently. Upper Austria is particularly affected,” says Johanna Trauner-Karner, safety expert at the Board of Trustees for Road Safety. “The best option is to install crash barriers on the windows. The second option is lockable window handles, which can be retrofitted relatively easily and locked with a key.” Trauner-Karner also recommends taking safety precautions if the children are with grandparents or other guardians.
The mother of the four-year-old from Weyer is routinely investigated for negligent bodily harm. In another case, a fall from a window led to a criminal complaint: in March, a five-year-old died in Linz, and on July 23, his mother and her partner will have to answer in court. They are said to have been walking at the time of the accident.
Source: Krone
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