All it took was a narrow passage for the child to rush into it and fall into the water.
A 3-year-old boy was "brain dead" on Monday after accidentally falling into his father's swimming pool on Easter Sunday in Ambarès-et-Lagrave in Gironde, we learned from the public prosecutor's office. Bordeaux.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the child, who was visiting his father, fell into the water around 7 p.m. despite the presence of a rigid dome covering the pool.
"The child apparently took advantage of a moment when this dome was ajar, a priori for a cleaning operation, to approach the water and fall," said the Bordeaux prosecutor's office, confirming a information from the Sud Ouest newspaper.
22% of accidental drownings occurred in a private swimming pool
He was sent to the pediatric emergency room of the Pellegrin hospital in cardio-respiratory arrest, despite the rapid intervention of the father and the firefighters called for help.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the gendarmes to determine the circumstances of this drama qualified as a domestic accident.
The investigations will continue “in order to determine whether there was recklessness, inattention or negligence at the origin of this situation”, added the prosecution.
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The Public Health France health agency, in its 2021 Drowning survey covering the period from June 1 to August 31, recorded 1,119 accidental drownings (including 250 fatalities), a figure down 9% from its previous report in 2018 In 2021, 22% of accidental drownings occurred in a private family swimming pool, according to the same source.
