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🛡️ Staying safeThe surprising answer

What hurts people most?

It's not the slides! Doctors found that most water park injuries come from slipping on wet floors. So: walk, don't run!A Turkish emergency-department study (2005-06, 73 water-park patients) found 31.5% were hurt on slides, 21.9% in pools and 46.6% slipping on wet decks; head, spinal and facial injuries each made up about a fifth. Two-thirds were male, mean age 24. In other words, the deck is more dangerous than the flume.

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