Accidents
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed - Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fatal Accidents as a Global Health Crisis
Worried about what to worry about? Accidents should move higher up your list.
Worldwide, road injuries kill more people than AIDS. Falls kill nearly three times as many people as brain cancer. Drowning claims more lives than mothers dying in childbirth. Both fire and poisonings have many times more fatal victims than natural disasters. In 2013, the combined death toll from all unintentional injuries was 3.5 million people. Only heart disease and stroke were greater killers.
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Death rates from traffic accidents are higher in Africa than anywhere else
Road traffic deaths are now the eighth-leading cause of death for all age groups—killing more people than tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS—and the leading cause of death for children and young adults between the ages of 5 and 29.
The Health and Safety of America's Workers Is at Risk
Unless you know someone who was killed or seriously injured on the job, you probably don’t give workplace safety much thought. Perhaps you think work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses are infrequent, or only affect workers in demonstrably risky jobs—like mining or construction. The actual statistics, however, tell a different story.
What Accident Most Changed the Course of History?
In 1536, Henry VIII fell from his horse during a joust and was badly injured. A shocked Anne Boleyn miscarried a male fetus, sealing her fate. The onetime athlete-king would grow crippled, fat, reclusive, tyrannical, and intolerant. How would the Protestant Reformation have ended if he’d remained on that horse?
Americans are now more likely to die from opioid overdoses than car crashes
The opioid epidemic is now a bigger public health and safety threat than car crashes.
FYI: Why Are Escalators So Dangerous?
There's an alternative, of course: plain old stairs. But nearly 12,000 people die in the U.S. every year after falling down a staircase. Moving up and down, it seems, always has its risks.
Give Me the Keys, Dad
Why there’s no personal, societal, or governmental solution for what to do about elderly drivers.
Guns killed more people than car crashes in 2017
The rate of gun deaths in the US increased yet again in 2017, driven mostly by a rise in the number of suicides with a firearm.
Human Extinction Isn't That Unlikely
“A typical person is more than five times as likely to die in an extinction event as in a car crash,” says a new report.
Injuries and Violence: Human, Economic Toll Too High
If you were standing beside me during just one of my ER shifts, you would see—up close and personal—how injuries and violence damage mothers, fathers, children, families, neighborhoods and communities.
Think Again Before Letting Your Kid on a Trampoline
Parents have no idea how dangerous they are. Here’s what you need to know.
‘I’ve Seen Too Many Accidents’: The Perils of Deliverymen
“Delivereros,” many undocumented, put themselves in danger every day, for little reward. After the death of a 14-year-old last November, others in the field take stock.
Fatal Accidents as a Global Health Crisis
Worried about what to worry about? Accidents should move higher up your list.
Safe Kids Worldwide
Safe Kids Worldwide is a nonprofit organization working to help families and communities keep kids safe from injuries. Most people are surprised to learn preventable injuries are the #1 killer of kids in the United States. Throughout the world, almost one million children die of an injury each year, and almost every one of these tragedies is preventable.
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