Map reveals UK’s most dangerous areas for fatal dog attacks – is YOUR county top of the list?
THE UK’s fatal dog attack hotspot has been revealed.
Britain is battling an epidemic of vicious maulings, with incidents this year already hitting a 40-year high.
This year alone, three people have been viciously attacked and killed - including four-year-old Alice Stones who was killed by her family's dog her back garden in Milton Keynes.
And at the weekend Wayne Stevens, 51, died following the attack inside a Derby home.
In the last ten years there have been a whopping 41 deaths as a result of vicious hound attacks - and ten of these took place in the last year.
Now, using the latest ONS statistics, The Sun has revealed which county in the UK has seen the most fatalities in the last decade.
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From 2013 - present Yorkshire has seen five deaths from dog attacks - making it the most deadly area in Britain.
July last year was the most recent fatality - when Joanne Robinson, 43, was savaged by two dogs at a home in Rotherham.
Her boyfriend Jamie Stead, 42, also suffered devastating injuries to his face, hands and chest as he tried to pull the animals off her.
And in September 2020, Elon Jase Ellis-Joynes was only 12 days old when he was fatally bitten by his family's Chow Chow-cross called Teddy.
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Merseyside and South Wales come in joint second for the most deathly dog attacks - with four in each county.
In October last year Ann Dunn, 65, died at her home in the Vauxhall area of Liverpool following a horror involving five American bulldogs.
Just two months later, retired nurse Shirley Patrick, 83, passed away in hospital 17 days after suffering "life-threatening injuries" from a dog in her home.
And down the road in November 2021, schoolboy Jack Lis, 10, was mauled to death by an American Bully XL called 'Beast' at a friend’s home.
Manchester and Lancashire are the third worst areas for fatalities after seeing two deaths each in the last ten years.
In 2020, Jonathan Halstead, 35, was mauled to death by his Staffordshire Bull Terrier after collapsing while having an epileptic fit in Oldham.
And in Lancashire Sharon Jennings, 55, died of sepsis following a mauling as she defended her pet from another dog in Preston.
The country has saw a 26 per cent rise in dangerous dog attacks since the pandemic began, amid a boom of Brits buying puppies.
With the number of fatalities soaring, grieving family members of victims are calling for tougher laws to stop maulings in their tracks.
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It’s thought the rising deaths are due to a lack of socialisation in lockdowns as well as incorrect training methods being used on dogs.
