On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:13:00 +0100, Phil W Lee
<phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:

>%steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) considered Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:37:58
>+0100 the perfect time to write:
>
>>Phil W Lee <phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:
>>
>>> >Ho, ho, ho - why not scuttle off and find the quote for 3,000
>>> >pedestrians being killed every year from tripping and falling.
>>> >
>>> That was done when it was first asked for, but I doubt the programme
>>> is still available on BBC iPlayer.
>>
>>If the claim was made, then it must have been erroneous. The total
>>number of people killed each year in trips or falls is 2700. That's
>>total as in all locations, not just on the pavement. From memory, a
>>significant number of those falls are in the home.
>>
>>I suggest that either the presenters were well into the usual
>>journalistic hyperbole or that you misheard the statistics. I certainly
>>don't think that you or anyone attempted to mislead anyone else, but it
>>does indicate the usual level of lack of thought about statistics
>>presented in the media.
>>
>>http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=5670
>>
>>If you want to check for yourself.
>>
>>Code: W00-W19 - Falls
>
>The data was given (by a man from the ONS, backed up by another from
>another govt agency) for 2007.


Yes of course it was.

Can you point to just one instance of this "fact" online?