In reality, suicide is the number one cause of death for individuals from 15 to 30 if you include firearms, medications, falls, and motor vehicle crashes. The number one weapon for the suicide is the motor vehicle and that skews the statistics since the suicides are often listed as motor vehicle accidents when in reality they were intentional and not accidental.
Accidental deaths, including motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for 15 to 30 year olds and that is primarily due to the reason they do not usually die of other causes, such as heart disease, strokes, etc.
Motor vehicle accidents
People die in car accidents because they may be drunk, tired or not paying attention to the road.Another View: The leading MEDICAL cause of death in vehicle accidents is due to injuries from blunt force trauma.
In the UK, about 3,000 a year in recent years.
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The second leading cause of death for teenagers is homicide, which includes deaths resulting from intentional violence or assault.
Motor vehicle accidents is the leading cause of unintentional death in the United States, in 2007, as many as 41,059 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2007 while 5,400 workers died in 2007 from an occupational injury and more than 4 million workers had a nonfatal injury or illness.
True: Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death among teenagers 15-19 years old according to the CDC. Unintentional injuries were the fifth leading cause of death overall and the leading cause for those under 45 years of age. Unintentional injuries comprised 66% of accidents for people under 45 years old. Motor vehicle traffic (27.3 percent) make up the largest percentage of unintentional injuries, Firearms (18.8 percent), Poisoning (16.4 percent), Fall (10.6 percent) and Suffocation (7.9 percent) comprise the rest.
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Motor vehicle accidents can be deadly and are listed as the leading cause of death in children ranging in ages 2-14. Statistics show that in the U.S. a person dies every twelve minutes from a car accident and that 40,000 annually die from car accidents.