Drownings as selfie craze gets fatal

THRILL SEEKERS are visiting the coastlines of Britain with the intention of taking selfies in the most dangerous poses, and the craze is often landing them in trouble … many are ending up dead. 

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) reports that the desire to catch the perfect pose has led to the deaths of 92 people over the past two years. The RNLI reports saving almost 385 lives in near fatal incidents.

People go far too close to slippery, unstable, and uneven cliff edges to take their picture with the coastline in the background. Many have fallen into the sea.

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Post Office survey reveals cost of accidents abroad

AN ESTIMATED 4.4 million UK holidaymakers suffered injuries on trips abroad over the last three years at a cost of more than £1 billion, according to research by Post Office Travel Insurance.

More than a third (38%) of people who holidayed abroad in that period had an accident and 37.5% of them suffered injuries that cost an average of more than £252 each.

Animal bites and insect, jellyfish, or stingray stings were the most frequent incidents, suffered by a quarter of holidaymakers polled by the Post Office. Potentially serious problems such as food poisoning (14%) and sunstroke or severe sunburn requiring medical treatment (8%) were also commonplace.

One in 20 holidaymakers slipped or fell around swimming pools. The same proportion of people tripped or fell downstairs, suffered cuts from broken glass and other sharp objects or sustained injuries while swimming, snorkelling, or diving. Cuts and bruises together with broken or fractured limbs, shoulders and ankles were among the more common injuries.

Most injuries cost holidaymakers relatively small amounts of money. These ranged from an average of £47 for bites and stings to £118 for sunstroke or sunburn, £121 for a rental motorbike or scooter accident and £150 for a bathroom fall. But tourists not covered by travel insurance could find themselves paying much more than the average bills uncovered by the research.

It found individual injuries caused by bicycle accidents costing around £850 and of a sunburn victim paying around £1,500 for treatment. Some suffered multiple accidents costing them up to £7,500.

More accidents happened to UK holidaymakers in Spain than anywhere else, according to the poll of more than 2,000 people. Ten percent of food poisoning incidents were in Turkey.

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