A passerby became aware of the screaming toddler and alerted the rescue workers. According to the police, the child fell out of the window at an unsupervised moment.
According to the police, an older sister looked after the child and another sibling. The young woman left the room briefly when the toddler apparently climbed onto the window. “She believed the window was closed,” said police spokesman Christopher Verhnjak.
The baby received first aid from the emergency services and was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries, suspected of having a fracture in the hip area. There was no danger to life.
This means that nine children in Austria have already fallen out of the window this year, compared to ten in the previous year, according to records from the Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV). On average, a child falls from a window every four to five weeks in Austria, and 13 have died as a result in the past ten years, according to the KFV. “We therefore urgently appeal to parents to be particularly careful when ventilating and to take preventive precautionary measures – such as installing window locks,” emphasized Othmar Thann, director of the KFV, in a statement.
Source: Nachrichten
