About nine percent of people die because of injuries. And injuries are commonly caused because of all kinds of accidents. In England 10, 000 people die each year through accidents.
There is a big variation in how different types of accident affect different parts of the country. For example, rural areas have more road accidents. But not only. Big cities like London also suffers from a plague of road accidents. Every year 2,000 Londoners dies and 77,000 are admitted to hospital with injuries, and only in 2004, 4 thousands of people were killed or seriously injured in road accidents in London. Although the scale of London’s accidents and injuries is not increasing it’s still a big problem (as for England it has higher rate of pedestrian accidents than most of European countries).
Birmingham’s one of the most accident claim North East is building site accident. Usually happens during the work that is also one of the most dangerous place. In general, thousands of accidents happen whilst handling heavy items or climbing on heights. Working in construction industry is especially dangerous and those workers are at much greater risk for injuries than any other types of industry in the UK. Statistically they are even six times more likely to be injured. The falling from height is the most common fatal accident at work in the UK.
Those who live in Bristol usually suffer from sport injuries, especially while playing football (based on number of local forms as accident injury claims Birmingham, accident injury claims London and accident injury claims Bristol). Accidents in England also vary in age of victims and places. Very young and elderly people are the most likely to risk death or injury as a result of accidents. Accidental injury is the leading cause of deaths about young people and children in England. As it was said, the most popular place of accident is road, work, but also home is not a safety place. A third of all accidents to seniors occur in the home, mostly as a result of trips or falls.
