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| Amazing Statistics |
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Without wishing to be sensationalistic...
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3,400 people were killed on British roads in 2001, a rise of 1% on the previous year.
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In England and Wales alone in 1999 there were over 3,900 accidental deaths (home & leisure).
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In 2000/2001 there were over 200 deaths of employees and nearly 80 self-employed deaths and over 440 fatalities of the general public. 300 died on the railways (trespass & suicide).
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Nearly 570 people drowned in 1999 and 440 in 2000.
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Accidental fires totalled 108,400 in which 595 people died.
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Each year there are about 2.7million accidents in the home - of these approx. 4,000 are fatal. 46% of the deaths were from falls (nearly 80% of those aged over 65).
Over 5700 people died suddenly in the home between 1995 and 1997
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Since the Millennium over 1.6million people have died in Gt. Britain - over 500,000 each year.
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In 2002 - 125,000 women died from heart and circulatory disease that is 48,000 more than died from cancer. Cardiovascular is the main cause of death in the UK (about 238,000 a year). 117,000 die from CHD, 34,000 die from lung cancer, 16,000 a year from colon cancer and 13,000 from breast cancer.
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| It gets worse abroad... |
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In the US, 41,611 died in auto accidents in 1999, 47,288 in 2001.
On average, 114 people die every day in auto accidents on US roads.
In 2001 - 101,537 died unintentionally, 3281 drowned accidentally, 3309 in smoke/fire/flames
About 20,000 die each year from flu, 15,500 were murdered in 2000. 14,078 died from accidental poisoning. Although in the US the odds of being struck (killed) by lightening are 6.5Million to 1 – still 44 died.
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Countries with the LOWEST annual accidental death rate:
Bahamas - 17.9 per 100,000 deaths
United Kingdom - 20.5/100,000
Australia - 24.6/100,000
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In Europe - In 1995, according to a 1998 World Health Organization Press Release WHO/57 , two million traffic accidents resulted in 120,000 deaths and 2.5 million injured people in the whole European region. One in every three - road traffic deaths involved people younger than 25 years of age. Pedestrians and bicyclists were particularly vulnerable groups, making up 45% of all road deaths in the United Kingdom. In Hungary, the proportion was even higher, over 50%, but in most Western European countries it was substantially lower (17% in France, 20% in Germany and around 30% in Denmark and the Netherlands). In motorized traffic the highest-risk group was motorcyclists, with a death rate ten times higher than for car occupants, and an injury rate six times higher than that of car occupants.
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