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The number of drug poisoning deaths in England and Wales increased since 1993, reaching 4,329 deaths in 2023, the highest number in the recorded period. This statistic displays the number of deaths due to accidental drug poisoning in England and Wales from 1993 to 2023.

Information on the numbers of deaths which were caused by accidents, 2020 and previous years.

Sixteenth-century English accident inquests complete deposit is a spreadsheet with details extracted from 8888 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths in sixteenth-century England held at the National Archives. It was created as part of a project funded by the ESRC from 2011 to 2015, ‘Everyday life and fatal hazard in sixteenth-century England’ (reference RES-062-23-2819), and underpins the book An Accidental History of Tudor England: From Daily Life to Sudden Death (London, John Murray, 2025). The data is available in both Excel and csv formats.

Years of Life Lost (YLL) as a result of death from accidental falls, classified by underlying cause of death. Age-specific death rates per 100,000 population Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Publisher: Information Centre (IC) - Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base Geographies: Local Authority District (LAD), Government Office Region (GOR), National, Strategic Health Authority (SHA) Geographic coverage: England Time coverage: 2005-07, 2007 Type of data: Administrative data

This statistic displays the number of deaths from drug poisoning by gender and underlying cause in England and Wales in 2023. In this year, the majority of deaths occurred due to accidental poisoning by drugs, medicaments and biological substances, with 3,045 deaths among males and 1,284 deaths among females.

This data collection consists of a spreadsheet with details extracted from 6000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths in sixteenth-century England held at the National Archives. Tudor England was a dangerous place. There were plagues and wars, perilous childbirths and shocking infant mortality. But what risks did people face as they went about their everyday lives? Thousands of coroner's inquest reports on accidental deaths preserved at The National Archives allow us to investigate. These reports cover almost the whole of England, town and country, young and old, men and women, rich and poor. They tell us about working practices in farming, industry and housework and about leisure activities such as football, swimming, bell-ringing and riverside flower-picking, even the risks of getting too close to performing bears. They show contrasts between men's and women's lives, between different agricultural regions, between different times of day and seasons of the year. They show changes across the century, such as the replacement of archery by guns. Reports submitted by sixteenth-century coroners were photographed and the details they contained about the incidents in which individuals died were abstracted into a spreadsheet.

This is the number of people of all ages killed or seriously injured (KSI) in road traffic accidents, in an area, adjusted. This indicator includes only casualties who are fatally or seriously injured and these categories are defined as follows:

Fatal casualties are those who sustained injuries which caused death less than 30 days after the accident; confirmed suicides are excluded.

Seriously injured casualties are those who sustained an injury for which they are detained in hospital as an in-patient, or any of the following injuries, whether or not they are admitted to hospital: fractures, concussion, internal injuries, crushings, burns (excluding friction burns), severe cuts and lacerations, severe general shock requiring medical treatment and injuries causing death 30 or more days after the accident.

An injured casualty is recorded as seriously or slightly injured by the police on the basis of information available within a short time of the collision. This generally will not reflect the results of a medical examination, but may be influenced according to whether the casualty is hospitalised or not. Hospitalisation procedures will vary regionally.

Slight injuries are excluded from the total, such as a sprain (including neck whiplash injury), bruise or cut which are not judged to be severe, or slight shock requiring roadside attention.

Police forces use one of two systems for recording reported road traffic collisions; the CRaSH (Collision Recording and Sharing) or COPA (Case Overview Preparation Application). Estimates are calculated from figures which are as reported by police. Since 2016, changes in severity reporting systems for a large number of police forces mean that serious injury figures, and to a lesser extent slight injuries, are not comparable with earlier years. As a result, both adjusted and unadjusted killed or seriously injured statistics are available. Further information about the reporting systems can be found here.

Areas with low resident populations but have high inflows of people or traffic may have artificially high rates because the at-risk resident population is not an accurate measure of exposure to transport. This is likely to affect the results for employment centres e.g. City of London and sparsely populated rural areas which have high numbers of visitors or through traffic. Counts for Heathrow Airport are included in the London Region and England totals only.

From the publication of the 2023 statistics onwards, casualty rates shown in table RAS0403 to include rates based on motor vehicle traffic only. This is because the department does not consider pedal cycle traffic to be robust at the local authority level.

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The number of drug misuse deaths due to accidental poisoning in England and Wales have generally increased over the provided time interval reaching 3,029 deaths in 2023. This statistic displays the number of deaths from drug misuse due to accidental poisoning in England and Wales from 1993 to 2023.

Motorcycles were consistently the most fatal transport mode in Great Britain between 2013 and 2021. There were 74 recorded annual fatalities of motorcyclists for every billion passenger kilometers in 2021. This was significantly higher than pedestrian deaths, which at 16 fatalities per billion kilometers was the second most fatal mode of transport together with cycling, which recorded the same rate of fatalities.

In 2023, 259 deaths were recorded in England and Wales as a result of paracetamol poisoning. Over the provided time interval, the number of fatal drug poisonings by paracetamol has generally fallen since peaking at 653 deaths in 1997. Paracetamol is a commonly used painkiller dispensed over-the-counter in the United Kingdom. How does paracetamol poisoning happen? Overdose from this medication occurs after excessive ingestion, which can happen either accidentally or deliberately. In the UK, three types of overdose from paracetamol have been defined by the National poisons information service. They are acute overdose – taking a large amount of the drug within one hour most likely in the circumstance of self-harm; staggered overdose – a large amount ingested but over a longer period than one hour still usually related to self-harm; and therapeutic excess which is usually done when trying to treat pain and without intent to harm oneself. Context of paracetamol overdose deaths In 2019, there were over 4.4 thousand deaths overall from drug poisoning in England and Wales. Showing that paracetamol overdose deaths account for a relatively small share of drug deaths overall. Overdose deaths are twice as common in males than females. Furthermore, the majority of drug overdose deaths in England and Wales were ruled as accidental poisonings. However, in 2019, around 950 deaths were declared to be intentional self-poisoning.

This statistic illustrates the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured in road accidents, with engines of 50 cc or over, in Great Britain as of 2018, categorized by gender and age group. In that year, there were 4,727 more male motorcyclists killed or seriously injured than female motorcyclists. Motorcyclists between 25 and 59 years old were by far the group age with the highest number of casualties, with 3,268 men and 181 women.

In 2023/24, 138 workers died due to fatal injuries at their workplace in Great Britain, more than in the previous year but fewer than there were in 2020/21. During the provided time period, there has been a noticeable decline in the number of workplace fatalities in Britain.

Data on the number of road traffic fatalities involving police on emergency response in England and Wales from 2004/05 to 2019/20 shows that in 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2016/17 there were no such emergency response related incidents. By 2019/20 there were in total 3 road traffic fatalities.