Recent statistics reveal that one of the most deaths in the United States is caused by accidents. The number of accidental deaths continually increases as the year progress.
NPR noted that the accidental death causes are often triggered by overdoses and falls. The number of car crashes, however, is quite low. It was revealed that the National Safety Council's report around 136,000 people in the United States die due to accidental causes in 2014, which is said to be the highest number attained.
The high numbers is said to be a 4.2 percent increase from 2013 and it is also said to be another 15.5 percent increase ten years ago. The opioid and heroin epidemic also played a huge influence on the accidental death rates.
Aside from the overdose epidemic, accidental poisoning is also said to be another cause of deaths in the United States. Both overdose and accidental poisoning killed 42,000 people in 2014, which is four times higher than the tallied deaths of the same cause in 1998.
As for the motor vehicular death causes in 2014, only 35,398 tallied deaths were recorded. The numbers however are still 22 percent higher than 10 years ago.
"Far fewer teenagers and young adults are dying on the roads than they were in 1981," Ken Kolosh, the statistics manager of NSC said. "Distraction related crashes are very under-reported, It's very difficult for police officers at the time of a crash investigation to get accurate information about the level of distraction at the time of the crash.
CBS then noted that despite the fact that murder can be an alarming risk in the United States, statistics reveal that there are only eight accidental deaths per homicide. Strange accidents, including toilet accidents also increased in number as 112,412 individuals were sent to the emergency room for toilet related accidents.
