AAP General News (Australia)
02-14-2009
NSW: Child's window plunge accidental, police say
SYDNEY, Feb 14 AAP - A child who plunged from a third-floor window of a Sydney unit
block is believed to have fallen accidentally, police say.
The five-year-old girl is in hospital with critical head injuries after falling from
the window of a unit in Curtis St, Caringbah in Sydney's south on Saturday.
Paramedics were called to the unit block at 1.42pm (AEDT), after the girl fell through
the flyscreen attached to the window.
A neighbour called police.
Police said the incident was being investigated and the girl's mother, aged in her
20s, was at home at the time.
"It's understood a five-year-old girl had accidentally fallen about eight metres from
a window," police said in a statement on Saturday.
NRMA CareFlight spokesman Ian Badham said the girl was unconscious when paramedics
arrived at the unit, and it was feared she had also suffered spinal injuries.
The girl has been rushed to St George Hospital, and is expected to be transferred in
a few hours to The Children's Hospital at Westmead.
"She hit the ground at the same time as the flyscreen," Mr Badham said.
"We don't know if she was leaning against it or quite what happened but the flyscreen
has given way and she has fallen."
It is the fourth time in as many months that a Sydney child has been seriously injured
after falling through a window.
In January a four-year-old boy suffered a broken leg when he fell from a second-storey window.
He was playing in his Liverpool home in south-west Sydney when he fell against the
flyscreen, which gave way, authorities said at the time.
In December a three-year-old boy was rushed to hospital with suspected head and internal
injuries after falling from the third floor of his Bankstown unit.
A four-year-old boy fractured his skull in a similar incident at Berowra, in Sydney's
north, in November.
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