The Bald facts on killer veg..
1 Former MP for Thirsk, North Yorks, Sir William Gallwey went out shooting in Bagby on December 19, 1881, and crossed a field full of turnips. He tripped and fell, impaling himself on one which resulted in severe internal injuries. Already suffering from poor health before the accident, he died at the scene.
2 While out shopping in east London on July 14, 1989, Leslie Merry was killed by a flying turnip. The root veg had been thrown at the 56-year-old from a car and punctured a lung. It also caused a rib to break in three places. Nine days later he died as a result of a ruptured spleen caused by the impact.
3 An annual event for Isle of Wight farmers turned deadly for Edward Rendell when he left home in Salisbury to go turnip picking. After leaving a pub in Newport in 1877, he was attacked and killed. Local labourers Alfred Jones and Charles Brading were charged with manslaughter.
4 Aspiring chef Andrew Lee from Edlington lost his life in 2008 after suggesting to his girlfriend’s brother they challenge each other to see who could eat the spiciest tomato sauce. Gathering up chillies from his dad’s garden, Andrew polished off his full portion. The Doncaster forklift truck driver was found dead the morning after of an allergic reaction caused by the capsaicin chemical in the spicy veg.
5 Popping out of her truck to get some paperwork in 2007, Sheila Kay Ross never returned, leaving her husband who was waiting in the vehicle baffled. Three days later her dead body was found pinned inside a lettuce trailer at a Dole plant in Yuma, Arizona. The salad favourite had crushed all signs of life out of her.
6 Rotting spuds wiped out four members of a family of Russians in 2013 when the fumes overpowered their basement. One by one, as they went to search for each other, they lost their lives.
7 An outbreak of salmonella in cucumbers took the lives of four people in the US in 2015.
8 A pair of teenage workers at a sweetcorn complex in Mount Carroll, Illinois, were crushed to death by a mountain of kernels in 2010.
9 Unaware a toxic substance called cucurbitacin was lurking inside his home-grown courgettes, 79-year-old Ludwig A, of Heidelberg, Germany, died two weeks after eating soup containing the veg.
10 Home-canned peas poisoned couple Edward and Delphine Hein and three of their six children of Grafton, North Dakota, in 1931. In total, 13 of their dinner party guests died.