In the United States, there are approximately 6 million car accidents a year, with about 40,000 deaths. About 40% of those deaths are the direct result of a drunken driver, 30% is due to speeding, and 33% is due to reckless driving.
During the year 1982 there were 11 deaths on Mount Everest. Four were due to falling, Three due to an avalanche, Two due to disapearance, One due to illness and One due to icefall collapse. There are not usually this many deaths in one year.
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well, to my calculation there are about 2 deaths a second so that would be like 120 deaths a minute.
In the United States, there are more than 32,000 yearly deaths caused by firearms each year. This number is slowly rising, while the incidence rate (i.e. deaths per 100,000 people) is about the same. This means that there are about 85 deaths each day in the USA due to a gun. Note that about 19,000 of those deaths are suicides, 11,000 from homicide, and 800 from accidents.
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around 3,050 deaths occur from drowning in Texas annually.
Abuse can happen in many ways, physical, mental, emotional and psychological. There are close to 2 million injuries, and 1,300 deaths that happen yearly due to abuse.