• Each year more than 200,000 kids are treated in emergency rooms for injuries that happened on a playground.

• Sixty children between the ages of two and 14 have been killed by automatic garage doors since 1982, about four a year, and countless others have suffered injuries.

• Each year 2,500 children are injured and 100 are killed when a driver backs over them, and most often it's a family member.

• In 2004, 43 children were strangled to death when their heads were caught in vehicle power windows. Many power windows produce 50 to 80 pounds of force, more than 5 times as much as is necessary to raise a window.

• Every year approximately 26 infants die, and another 11,500 are hospitalized, from injuries sustained in cribs. Nearly four million babies are born in the US every year, but only 1 million cribs are sold. Thus, many infants are placed in used or second -  hand cribs, where most crib deaths occur.

• In 2004, approximately every five days a child in the United States died from choking on food. More than 90% of these children are younger than age five.

• Between 1991 and 2000, 160 strangulation deaths involving cords on window blinds were reported.

• At least 22 children have died and 47 have been injured by drawstrings on their garments since 1985.

• Between 1995 and 2000, eight highschool cheerleaders suffered catastrophic injuries. This compares with seven catastrophic injuries for all of high school basketball, even though the number of basketball players is estimated to be eight times greater than cheerleaders.

• Every two and a half hours a child dies as a result of a gun discharge.