Memorandum from Department for Transport
(DMNB 14)
A BREAKDOWN OF THE "FATALITIES"
DATA ON LEISURE, FISHING AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
Recreational Activities
Fatalities
| Recreational Activity
| 1997 | 1998 |
1999 | 2000 | 2001
| 2002 | 2003 |
2004 | 2005 | 2006
| 2007 |
Beach Activities | 5
| 2 | 2 | 4 |
4 | 5 | 3 | 6
| 5 | 6 | 3 |
| Boat & Shore Angling | 8 |
12 | 5 | 3 | 2
| 6 | 4 | 6 |
3 | 7 | 11 |
| Canal Boating | |
| | | |
| | | 0 | 1
| 1 |
| Canoeing & Kayaking | 2 |
1 | 2 | 1 | 3
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 1 | 6 |
| Cliff Climbing | 13 | 2
| 7 | 18 | 10 |
8 | 11 | 8 | 11
| 0 | 0 |
| Coastal Walking | 2 | 4
| 9 | 8 | 8 |
10 | 2 | 10 | 0
| 2 | 7 |
| Dinghys & Inflatables | |
| | |
| | | | 4
| 5 | |
| Falls & Misadventure | |
| | |
| | | | 13
| 19 | 33 |
| Motorboating | 2 | 9
| 7 | 5 | 4 |
3 | 11 | 5 | 10
| 2 | 8 |
| Personal Water Craft | 1 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1
| 1 | 1 | 2 |
0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rowing | 1 | 5
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
2 | 0 | 1 | 0
| 0 | 0 |
| Sailing | 10 | 11
| 7 | 6 | 3 |
9 | 12 | 2 | 8
| 10 | 14 |
| Sub-Aqua Diving | 10 | 12
| 12 | 12 | 16 |
5 | 10 | 12 | 14
| 12 | 8 |
| Surfboarding | 0 | 0
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0
| 2 | 0 |
| Swimming | 14 | 7
| 11 | 4 | 10 |
11 | 22 | 11 | 17
| 19 | 7 |
| Water Skiing | 0 | 0
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0
| 0 | 0 |
| Windsurfing/Kitesurfing | 0 |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tombstoning/Coasteering | |
| | |
| | | |
| | 6 |
Total | 68
| 66 | 63 | 63
| 62 | 62 | 76
| 65 | 86 | 87
| 106 |
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Commercial Activities
| Fatalities
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1997 |
1998
|
1999 |
2000
|
2001 |
2002
|
2003 |
2004
|
2005 |
2006
|
2007 | 10 yr
average
|
Commercial | 38 |
26 | 14 | 22 | 16
| 28 | 16 | 12 |
5 | 13 | 16 | 20.6
|
| Fishing | 34 | 24
| 11 | 24 | 14 |
20 | 12 | 20 | 9
| 23 | 11 | 20.2
|
| Total | 72 | 50
| 25 | 46 | 30 |
48 | 28 | 32 | 14
| 36 | 27 | |
Yearly Totals
| 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007
|
Maritime Fatalities in
UKSAR
|
140 |
117
|
88 |
109
|
92 |
110
|
105 |
100
|
100 |
124
|
133 |
3 Year Rolling
Average |
| |
115.0 |
104.7
|
96.3 |
103.7 |
102.3 |
105.0 |
101.7
|
108.0 |
119.0 |
As a % of Total
Fatalities |
51.66%
|
44.49% |
38.26% |
46.38% |
33.95% |
33.13%
|
33.87% |
23.75% |
26.79% |
33.42% |
41.82%
|
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| 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000 |
2001 | 2002 | 2003
| 2004 | 2005 |
2006 | 2007 |
Suicide Fatalities in
UKSAR
| 59 | 75 | 48 |
52 | 52 | 71 | 55
| 115 | 113 | 105
| 71 |
As a % of Total
Fatalities |
21.77%
|
28.52% |
20.87% |
22.13% |
19.19% |
21.39%
|
17.74% |
27.32% |
29.97% |
28.30% |
22.33%
|
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| 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000 |
2001 | 2002 | 2003
| 2004 | 2005 |
2006 | 2007 |
Crime
Fatalities in
UKSAR
| 24 | 30 | 49 |
50 | 48 | 100 |
107 | 135 | 100 |
68 | 73 |
As a % of Total
Fatalities |
8.86%
|
11.41% |
21.30% |
21.28% |
17.71% |
30.12%
|
34.52% |
32.07% |
26.53% |
18.33% |
22.96%
|
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| 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000 |
2001 | 2002 | 2003
| 2004 | 2005 |
2006 | 2007 |
Natural Fatalities in
UKSAR
|
32 |
28
|
27 |
15
|
44 |
23
|
28 |
34
|
30 |
33
|
39 |
| As a % of Total Fatalities |
11.81%
|
10.65% |
11.74% |
6.38% |
16.24% |
6.93%
|
9.03% |
8.08% |
7.96% |
8.89% |
12.26%
|
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| 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000 |
2001 | 2002 | 2003
| 2004 | 2005 |
2006 | 2007 |
Land
Fatalities
in UKSAR
| 16 | 13 | 18 |
9 | 35 | 27 | 14
| 23 | 34 | 30 |
40 |
As a % of Total
Fatalities |
5.90%
|
4.94% |
7.83% |
3.83% |
12.92% |
8.13%
|
4.52% |
5.46% |
9.02% |
8.09% |
12.58%
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