The life of a Coronation Street character is never a dull one.

From shocking car crashes, to grisly murders, you can never be quite sure when your time is up.

Now new research has revealed just how dangerous life in Corrie can be.

It found people living in Weatherfield are actually FIVE HUNDRED times more likely to be killed than any town or city in Greater Manchester.

In fact, the tongue-in-cheek study, found Corrie is the deadliest soap in the country.

The team at Buzz Bingo compared everything from murders and misadventure to marriages and births and compared them with genuine ONS figures. Here's what they found:

1. Death

The researchers looked at overall death rates in Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Coronation Street.

They found that of the top soaps, more people have died on the famous Weatherfield cobbles (181) than any other.

Corrie characters are five hundred times more likely to be murdered than people in Greater Manchester.

Meanwhile, the murder rates for Hollyoaks are 2,115 times higher than the city of Chester and 769 times more likely to be killed in Emmerdale than the whole of Yorkshire.

Hollyoaks kills off characters more frequently though - 6.77 deaths occur annually in Hollyoaks village compared with the next highest - which is Emmerdale at 3.94 a year.

As an indicator of just how dangerous Coronation Street can be, research showed it is four times deadlier than the 'murder capital of the world', Los Cabos in Mexico.

Cars

Emmerdale is the soap where the most people have died in car crashes, have been mowed down or have been in some form of vehicle based tragic accident, the study found.

There have been 28 road/vehicle deaths in its history.

According to ONS stats, characters in Emmerdale are sixty six times more likely be killed compared with all of Yorkshire's roadways combined.

Other soaps aren't much safer when it comes to cars.

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Dermot Ashton died in 1996 after crashing his car into the river Dee in Hollyoaks.

Just last week in Coronation Street, Leanne Battersby was killed by drug dealing Ronan Truman when he reversed over her.

Wedding tragedies

Did you know that both Steve McDonald of Corrie and Bob Hope of Emmerdale have both had more wives than Henry VIII?

The research also found that four of the seven most wedded soap stars have been married to the same person more than twice.

A look back through the archives shows wedding days aren't also without tragedy in soapland.

Who can forget when:

- Max Cunningham tragically lost his life during his wedding to Steph Dean when he was mowed by a car. He had been protecting his younger brother

- Ruby Haswell was slashed across the stomach with a helicopter blade on Emmerdale in 2015.

- Trevor Royle was shot on his wedding day in Hollyoaks

- In a soap first, Hollyoaks showed hunky copper Calvin Valentine's wedding reception murder in an episode that flashed forward six months into the future, setting up a 'Who Killed Calvin?

- One of Emmerdale's most memorable scenes saw Tom King being thrown to his death from a high window just hours after his Christmas Day wedding to gold-digging Rosemary Sinclair

WTF deaths

The team's research found that Coronation Street is the soap most plagued by deaths resulting from unfortunate accidents with eight in total.

Here are some of the most memorable in Corrie and some of the other soaps:

- Ruby Haswell was slashed across the stomach with a helicopter blade on Emmerdale in 2015. It happened at Debbie Dingle's wedding in the town hall of all places

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- Joe McIntyre attempted to fake his own death in Coronation Street as part of an insurance scam back in 2010. He had tried to make it look like a boating accident and ironically ended up accidentally drowning in Lake Windermere in the process

- Another one from Coronation Street, Harry Hewitt was crushed to death when the jack slipped on a van he was repairing all the way back in 1967

- Hollyoaks' Heidi Costello was strangled by her own Father 'accidentally'. She had been wearing the same Halloween costume as his intended target Lynsey Nolan, so Silas Blissett had been completely unaware that he was killing his own daughter that he loved

- Back in 2009, Hollyoaks offered one of the more original and most random soap deaths. During a parachute jump, Lydia cuts Zoe's parachute. But in a shocking turn of events she accidentally cuts Sarah Barnes' - leading to death via chute

- Most recently Dirk Savage was electrocuted in a swimming pool by Milo Entwistle

Deadliest families



The team have also looked into how many murders or deaths have occurred within specific families within soaps.

And it shows a remarkable amount of characters who met their demise at the hands of someone they were related to.

They include:

Silas Blissett strangled his own daughter (albeit unwittingly)

Adam Donovan was shot by his own father Glenn in Hollyoaks

Mark Wylde was shot by wife Natasha Wylde in 2010

Back in 2000, Sarah Sugden died in a fire started by adopted son Andy in Emmerdale

Even as far back as 1975, Lynn Johnson was battered to death in Coronation Street by her then husband Roy inside 9 Coronation Street.

2. Weddings

Coronation Street is the show to have seen the most weddings in soap history, the team found.



There have been 98 in total compared with the 70 in Emmerdale that takes second spot.

As already mentioned, there are some love rats who've wedded multiple times.



Steve McDonald from Coronation Street tops the list in joint first with seven weddings.

The former teen tearaway tied the knot with first wife Karen in 1995 before going on to remarry with second wife Karen in 2001.

After a brief time apart, he went on to marry Karren again in 2004, but would find himself married to Becky Granger by 2009.

This was short lived, and by 2012 he was married to Tracy Barlow, before he ended up marrying Michelle Connor some three years later.





Bob Hope from Emmerdale is also joint top with seven.

He has seven kids and is having an affair with Laurel Thomas – so there could be room for one more wedding for Bob.

His first and second weddings were both to Jean hope in 1986 and again in 1986.

His fourth marriage was to American exotic dancer Vonda Lockhart.

They were married for only 24 hours and divorced. His fifth wife was Viv Windsor who also married twice (2001 and 2006).

His latest wife is Brenda Walker, who he is cheating on currently.



Interestingly, four of the top seven have married the same person more than once (Ian Beale and Jane, Bob Hope and Viv Windsor, Steve McDonald and Tracy Barlow and Gail Rodwell and Brian Tilsley).

Births

The team found that in Hollyoaks five per cent of female characters gave birth over the course of a year, which is more than double the birth rate in Cheshire, according to the ONS.

Overall, there have been 45 births in Corrie, 41 in Emmerdale and 32 in Hollyoaks during their history.

Corrie has the highest birth rate at an average of 1.55 per year.

The research also shows which months are the most popular for births in soaps and they are generally near the end of the year.

In both Corrie and Emmerdale it is December while October is also popular with seven in Hollyoaks.

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