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  • Probe into Japanese bathtub fatalities after 14,000 die in one year

    05/01/2012 10:15:47 AM PDT · by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis · 31 replies
    Telegraph ^ | 4-30-12
    Japan's health ministry is to launch an investigation into bath-time fatalities after it was estimated that 14,000 people die every year in the tub - three times as many as those who died in car accidents. According to the figures, 4,612 people died as a result of traffic accidents across the nation in 2011. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced the first nation-wide study into bath fatalities after a number of local authorities began collecting statistics that point to a high number of victims being elderly. The high number of bath deaths can be traced back to the...