June 14,2007

A 3-year-old girl accidentally fell from a second story in her
Greely, Colorado home, when she apparently leaned against
the insect screen of her bedroom window while taking a nap.
It was unclear whether the child was sleeping at the time of
the accident or had awoken before she fell. Her condition is
unknown, but she was conscious and breathing when she was taken to North Colorado Medical Center, according to Dale Lyman, a Union Colony Fire Rescue Authority spokesman.

Her parents and two other siblings were home at the time of
the accident. We should use this incident as a reminder for
parents that your child’s bed should not be placed around
windows. This goes for other furniture as well. Falls commonly occur because children are jumping or playing on the bed, loose their balance, and end up tumbling out an open window. Putting a bed directly next to a window places the window at ground level for a child who is playing around it, making a deadly fall through an open window just one slip of balance away.