82%People who died in summerAfter trending down for years, Australia has recorded its worst year of deaths by drowning since 1996.
Injuries – including drownings, road crashes and falls – result in 13,400 deaths and 520,000 hospitalisations in Australia every year, and are the top cause of death for people aged one to 44. Drowning rates were as bad on the coast as they were inland. Surf Life Saving’s general manager of coastal safety Shane Daw said the 141 coastal drowning deaths were the most reported since the organisation started collecting this data 18 years ago.Considering that during COVID beach visits were down, international visitors were absent and the weather over summer had been terrible, the result was even worse than it appeared, Daw said.
The toll included 39 people who drowned in floodwaters, a trend expected to increase with continuing floods forecast. As well as those who died, 686 non-fatal drownings were reported. These can result in lifelong injuries. In 1996, the deaths of 68 children aged zero to four from drowning was described as a national tragedy. In the past year, 17 children of that age drowned.
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juliepower Directly proportional to the number of immigrants moving here that can’t swim. End of story.