Category : Swimming Pool Accidents
Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Pool Safety Bill
California Governor Schwarzenegger signed a key piece of pool safety legislation last week to help minimize entrapments, drowning and other pool accidents.
Assembly Bill 1020 was one of the hundreds of bills that piled up on the Governor’s desk over a period of weeks. Many of the bills were vetoed, but fortunately the governor has acknowledged the urgency of passing pool safety legislation, and has signed AB1020 into law. The bill makes it easier for public pool owners to comply with a federal pool safety law. It states that all current public single drain pools must be fitted with an anti-entrapment device like a safety vacuum release system. All public pools must also be fitted with approved safety drain covers. The law makes it easier for California’s public pools to comply with the provisions of the federal Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act. It also makes it easier for California officials to enforce the Act.
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Months After Pool Safety Act, Drowning Accidents Still Very Real Possibility
A few weeks ago, the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act aimed at making swimming pools around the country safer, and the possibility of horrible drowning and mutilations a thing of the past came into force. We reported on our blog then, on how the Act has not really resulted in the installation of new drain covers in all California pools. The WSJ Law Blog now paints a similar picture that’s being seen around the country. Even with the new federal safety rule, thousands of swimming pools in the US continue to be fitted with single drain caps that present a strong danger of deaths by drowning or entrapment.
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Abandoned Homes Present Risks of San Bernardino Swimming Pool Accidents
The bursting of the real estate bubble has meant many things to Americans – foreclosures, loss of consumer confidence, and a general dipping of the economy that has many citizens worried about the future. It may also mean something that not many have taken into consideration – the possibility of swimming pool accidents in homes abandoned due to foreclosure.
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Mick Fleetwood's Daughter Discharged After Swimming Pool Accident
Here’s one more reminder to keep your eyes on your children every time they are anywhere near a swimming pool. On July 18, rock legend and Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood suffered a parent’s worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter was seriously injured in a swimming pool accident. Yesterday came the good news that she has been discharged from Los Angeles’ Cedar Sinai Hospital, doing much better than her distraught parents had hoped for.
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Police Look for Clues in Huron California Swimming Pool Accident
Investigations are still on in the swimming pool accident in Huron on Wednesday in which a 10-year-old girl drowned in a public pool. So far, there has been nothing more then speculation and gossip by way of information coming in, police officers handling the investigation say, and they are still far from getting to the bottom of the truth.
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Father of Pool Accident Victim Files Lawsuit
The father of a five-year-old autistic girl who was found drowned in the swimming pool of an after school program has filed a lawsuit that seeks unspecified damages. The child, Anya Glossinger, who was blind and autistic, was found drowned at a pool here she was undergoing hydrotherapy at a facility in Desert Springs California. She was found submerged, and rushed to hospital where she died a day later. Her mother says the girl did not know how to swim.
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Girl Disemboweled in Pool Accident Dies
Soon after the pool accident that horribly disemboweled her, Abigail Taylor asked her father if she was going to be on television. When he asked her why, she reportedly told him that she would like to make sure that what happened to her wouldn’t happen to other kids. She got her wish – in December, President Bush signed a law that bans the distribution, sale and manufacture of drain covers that don’t meet entrapment safety standards, but Abigail didn’t live long enough to see the far reaching effects her case has had on swimming pool safety.
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