Waves and sharks aren't the only dangers at the beach. More than two dozen young people have been killed over the last decade when sand holes collapsed on them, report father-and-son doctors who have made warning of the risk their personal campaign.
Since 1985, at least 20 children and young adults in the United States have died in beach or backyard sand submersions. And at least eight others died in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, according to a letter from the doctors published in this week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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*Update: As the commenter points out, it's very unusual for someone to die in a sand collapse. That's true. Perhaps you should be afraid of neither sand, nor sharks. But you should be afraid of your BICYCLE!!!!
