Injuring Yourself With Yourself?

Accident claims are big business in the United Kingdom, totalling more than 6 billion annually, made up of road accidents, workplace accidents and illness, slips, trips and falls, medical negligence and a number of others too.

But while accidents where someone else is liable are fairly common, they’re nowhere near as common as the accidents where the only liability falls to ourselves! Yes, we’re a clumsy bunch it seems.

But what about the rest of them? Well, accidents that involve no third party liability, the simple trips, falls, knocks, bangs and bruises for which we have nothing to blame but our own clumsiness, happen for a whole host of reasons.

Some of the statistics within the Home and Leisure Accidents database are, to say the least, a little bit odd. Back in 2002, for example, a total of 24,641 people managed to injure themselves with “an uninjured body part.” That is to say, they injured themselves with themselves.

It wouldn’t be unreasonable for this fact alone to conjure up visuals of some random person swinging their arms around wildly and subsequently hitting themselves in the face in a scene reminiscent of a bad slapstick comedy movie or those a little worse for wear treading on left foot with their right. However, unfortunately for us, the database doesn’t spill the details of individual cases. That’s a travesty, as reading through those would undoubtedly be entertaining.

And while accidents are, generally speaking, no laughing matter, in our compensation culture, I think it’s acceptable to enjoy a laugh at some of these more comedic capers. It’s actually fairly refreshing to hear of calamities like this, providing they don’t end in serious injury, of course!

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