title: Suicides in public places: findings from one English county.
abstract: Little is known about where suicides take place. We collected data from coroners' files on all suicides and undetermined deaths in one large English county from 2000 to 2004. The data show that >30% of suicides occurred in public places. A quarter of these involved jumping from a height and nearly a quarter involved car exhaust poisoning. Several sites were associated with multiple methods of suicide. Identifying and managing high-risk locations should be an important part of an overall suicide prevention strategy and is best tackled at local level.
authors.affiliation: Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Exeter, Devon, UK. christabel.owens@pms.ac.uk
authors.forename: Christabel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Owens
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lloyd-Tomlins
authors.forename: Tobit
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Emmens
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aitken
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D011633:Public Facilities; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*