Serious Cases

The Susy Safe project was born from the desire to reduce serious injuries and deaths due to foreign body accidents, mainly due to suffocation. Unfortunately, cases of death or serious injury in very small children are numerous. The articles listed below are a general and non-exhaustive overview of the situation worldwide.

• 2018

  • January 12^th, 2018: Child chokes to death at Gentilly pre-school
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• 2017

  • March 21^st, 2017: Un nene de un año murió al atragantarse con una bombucha en Mar del Plata
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  • April 21^st, 2017: Child dies after choking on a grape
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  • May 16^th, 2017: Boy, 2, chokes to death after lollipop gets stuck in his throat
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  • May 17^th, 2017: Texas girl chokes on fidget spinner part
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  • July 20^th, 2017: Chicago boy dies after choking on food at Norridge pool
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  • August 8^th, 2017: Toddler chokes to death on grapes
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  • August 24^th, 2017: Boy, five, died after choking on a sausage roll while eating his packed lunch with friends at school
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  • September 19^th, 2017: Pensacola boy dies after choking on a meatball at school
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  • September 26^th, 2017: 'Cancer patient' finds lump was toy traffic cone inhaled in 1977
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  • October 23^th, 2017: SC boy dies days after choking on ball and going into coma
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  • October 27^th, 2017: Caregiver says 3-year-old boy choked to death on cupcake
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• 2016

  • January 5^th, 2016: Jasmine Lapsley inquest: 'Panic' after girl choked on grape
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  • February 16^th, 2016: Toddler died after choking on grape in Pizza Hut
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• 2015

  • April 7^th, 2015: My baby choked to death, but continues to save lives today
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  • October 15^th, 2015: Toddler died after choking on grape in Pizza Hut
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  • October 31^th, 2015: 7-year-old Brooklyn girl who choked on lunch at school dies
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  • November 18^th, 2015: Toddler almost choked to death on a grape before being saved by quick-thinking gran
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• 2014

  • May 26^th, 2014: Devastated parents watched in horror as baby choked on piece of apple at home
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  • June 2^nd, 2014: Four-year-old boy chokes to death on fishball
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  • Jun 8^th, 2014: Girl choked to death on piece of jelly at nursery
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• 2013

  • March 1^st, 2013: In King, infant boy dies after choking on food
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  • June 28^th, 2013: 7-year-old boy chokes to death on plum pit in Sapporo
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• 2012

  • October 21^th, 2012: 'My baby choked to death at nursery - that's why the law MUST be changed'
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• 2011

  • July 5^th, 2011: Her eyes wide with fear, my child was choking to death - and I didn't know what to do
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