Just this week, a 12-year-old Alberta girl was knocked unconscious after a bad fall onto her head while tobogganing.
After awaking from her coma two days later, her family forwarded her message to media that "if you're going sledding, better play it safe - wear a helmet", signaling the helmet debate is just beginning.
Children in most parts of Canada must wear helmets when biking or skiing, but with tobogganing there is no standard sledding helmet that is widely available.
More than 20 per cent of tobogganing injuries involve concussions, broken bones and internal injuries and 40 per cent of all accidents involve children between five and nine.
The majority of accidents happen when a sled collides with a rock, tree, sign or other inanimate obstacle on the hill, causing the passenger to become thrown off.
One child in Quebec and another in Manitoba have died in tobogganing accidents this winter.
Neither of the children were wearing helmets.
