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amsilprotag | 6 years ago
From [0]
Total Deaths 2016: 2,744,248
Unintended Injuries 2016: 161,374
From [1], a breakdown of those unintended 161,374 injuries above:
Accidental Poisoning and exposure to noxious substances: 58,335
Motor Vehicle: 40,327
Fall: 34,673
Accidental hanging, strangulation, and suffocation: 6,610
Accidental drowning and submersion: 3,786
Accidental exposure to smoke, fire and flames: 2,730
Dividing the 40,327 motor vehicle from the 2,744,248 deaths gets you 1.47%, way less than the 7.68 shown in the interactive chart.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2017/019.pdf page 1
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_05.pdf page 34
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