10 children have been treated for water related injuries
Paeditriac doctors are reminding South Australians to be careful in the water ahead of the long weekend, following a spike in children presenting with water-related injuries.
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00:00 Finally able to walk again after a boating accident changed this teen's life.
00:07 I didn't know what hit me because I was in such shock and the next thing I knew I was in the water, I was in absolute pain.
00:20 Sixteen-year-old Isaac McGare suffered multiple fractures to his pelvis in October when he collided with two wooden poles while being towed on an inflatable raft at Manham.
00:31 Isaac's case isn't unusual. New data from the Women's and Children's Hospital has found that of all water activities, those involving boats were most likely to cause severe injury.
00:43 It also found the average age of children with these injuries was 12 and nearly 70% were boys.
00:50 Doctors are urging parents and kids to take safety measures this summer and to always have a supervising adult.
00:57 Look out for the signs that are on the beach and on the river, particularly following the speed limits that are there, and watch out for submerged items.
01:07 A message echoed by Sharon Sands after a serious diving accident in 2012 left her then 13-year-old daughter partially paralysed.
01:18 We can't reverse these things. Once these things happen, you cannot reverse it.
01:22 They're injuries that no parent wants to see their child go through. It results in months of rehabilitation of pain.
01:31 An urgent pitch for kids to stay safe.
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