Would you be in favor of retesting driving skills for older motorists?

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Which Age Group Causes The Most Car Accidents ?

Car accidents are one of the principal reasons of death due to unintentional injury, if the CDC statistics are to be believed! According to the report made by the CDC’s National Center for Injury prevention and control, around 9.2 million kids below the age of 20 have been admitted to the emergency section due to an unintended injury and 12, 175 left dead since the first half of the present decade.

From the year 2000 to 2005, unintentional injury has been responsible for 44% of the deaths of children and teenagers below 20 years of age followed by death due the lack of any injury at 38 percent and intentional injury at 18 percent, while among the infants, deaths due to unintended injury is a mere 4 percent.

One of the primary reasons for unintentional injury includes motor vehicle accidents that affect 829 children per 100,000. In fact, 60 percent of the unintentional injuries are related to road traffic and road transportation. Males are more prone to death than females in unintentional injuries at a death rate of 19.3 against of 10.4 per 10,000 females. Racially, American Indians and the native males from Alaska have the highest death rate of 29.8 per 100,000 people while Asian or Pacific Islander females have the lowest at 5.4 per 100,000. The death rates of blacks and whites are similar at 19.5 per 100,000 people for boys and 10.5 per 100,000 people for girls.

Geographically, the northeast regions have the lowest death rates with Massachusetts at the lowest for kids aged 1 to 14 and for teens aged 15 to 19, the District of Columbia fared the lowest. Deaths related to transport were the highest across the South and the upper Midwest.

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