Some shocking fatality stats that may affect personal injury claims
The media is full of scare-mongering tactics that, if we believe what we read, could send us into fits of complete and utter panic. But dying in either a shark attack, fairground accident or terrorist attack is not really that likely. However, being killed in an accident at work or a road accident is much more common.
One of the most unlikely ways to meet your end is in a shark attack with odds of 300,000,000/1. For those of you who decide to take your life out of your own hands and embark on adventures swimming with relations of Jaws, it is unlikely that you will be able to make a personal injury claim if you have your limbs gnawed off in a shark attack.
However, fatal fairground/ amusement park accidents share the same odds as death by shark attack and last summer 29 people sustained personal injury when the Runaway Train at Alton Towers split in two.
Numerous compensation claims have been sought by those who have been involved in theme park accidents throughout the world and they are usually successful. The reason for this is that the owners/managers of such parks have a duty of care to regularly check their rides and make sure stringent safety measures are in place and failure to maintain customer safety is a major health and safety breach.
7th July 2005 is a date that sticks in the minds of many British citizens as it was the day that the London public transport system suffered a terrorist attack during the morning rush hour. Fifty-two commuters were killed and 700 sustained personal injuries in this terrible attack carried out by suicide bombers. That same year, 651 significant international terrorist attacks occurred worldwide and almost 2,000 people lost their lives, although the odds of dying in a terrorist attack are 9,300,000/1.
Personal injury claims for terrorist attacks can be extraordinarily costly to the government and many of those pursuing claims for the 7/7 bombings were still waiting for their compensation awards more than a year after the attack occurred.
However, there is significantly increased chance of being involved in an accident at work as more work accidents happen than any other type of accident. Each year, more than 25,000 serious accidents at work occur and approximately 300 people are killed in the UK.
While there is a 43,500/1 chance of being killed in an accident at work there is an 8,000/1 chance of being killed in a road accident. A total of 1,500 car drivers and adult passengers die in road crashes each year and worldwide 3,000 people are killed in road accidents every day. This is quite a frightening and very real statistic and also goes some way to explaining why so many personal injury claims are made following road accidents every year.
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