Alison Poussaint (right) and her nanny, Melanie LaFavre, went sledding at Larz Anderson Park in Brookline yesterday. Town officials were asking sledders yesterday to keep away from one of the steeper hills because it was too dangerous.
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Ice sends many slip-sliding into ERs
Helmet law urged for young sledders
Alison Poussaint (right) and her nanny, Melanie LaFavre, went sledding at Larz Anderson Park in Brookline yesterday. Town officials were asking sledders yesterday to keep away from one of the steeper hills because it was too dangerous.
(MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF)
There was the woman who went flying 8 feet into the air on an inner tube and crash-landed in a frozen marsh. There was the dad who slipped and bruised his ribs while shoveling, then burned himself after he fell asleep on a heating pad. Then there was the elderly man on blood-thinning medication who bled profusely after slipping on ... (Full article: 887 words)
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