Although the number of accidents have increased in 1999 on the previous year, this must be set against the very large increase in the sales of fireworks.
*There is a discrepancy between the headline total of 1,056 injuries and the total shown under NHS Trust and Type of Firework table. This is due to unforeseen accounting discrepancies in the latter.

Total Killed since 1973,           8
Total Injured since 1973,      27,925