10 Seemingly Harmless Things You Didn't Realise Killed People

6. Any Water You Can Find In Your Own Home

Well, maybe not that bit of water left at the bottom of your kettle or some water in a bird bath that wouldn't cover a sparrow's chest. To suggest that sort of water is dangerous would be faintly ridiculous. Just about anything else will kill you though. Expressed as a percentage more people drown in their own bath water than in public swimming pools. Young children and the elderly are most at risk for pretty obvious reasons. It is perhaps surprising that 25 babies drown in baths every year. Other inland waters prove notoriously fatal. Take 2006 in the UK, because that's a good year for illustrating stuff. It will not be of too much of a surprise to learn that 61 fatalities involved people unintentionally becoming immersed in water, e.g. slipping, falling in and drowning. 21 happened to people who were out swimming and 17 happened after vehicles entered the water. Three deaths occurred during commercial, presumably supervised activities. Nevertheless, a surprisingly harmful place to enter water was around the home that year, since a further 22 deaths occurred in residential settings. These included slipping into garden ponds, baths and home swimming pools. If you're wondering do these include murders in the bath, suicides and drug overdoses around water then no, they are not included. They're extra €“ these were just the surprising deaths by misadventure in your own home.