What are the chances?

Here are another pair of news stories from the 27th of February 2011. Both made the front page of the BBC website that day and both were about fatalities of people who had come from Tadcaster Yorkshire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-12592527
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12591428

So coincidences happen ridiculously often, you always need to think about the data.