Living Streets conducted an unscientific survey of 1,000 texting Brits and found that 1 in 10 — or, potentially, 6.5 million people in the UK — had suffered injuries while texting and walking. Read more.

The other danger is a small (the chance of being hit by lightning is about one in three million) but quite real (reports from London, China, Korea and Malaysia, all but one dead) chance to be hit by lightening.

Driving and talking on mobile was a reported cause of 13 deaths and 400 injuries in the UK in 2005.