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Motor vehicle
94 percent of transportation deaths are from motor vehicle crashes. Vehicle crashes also make up 99 percent of non-fatal transportation injuries.
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 4.9 million people die each year from unnatural causes such as accidents, violence, and self-harm. These deaths are preventable through public health interventions and safety measures.
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car crashes
Approximately 405,000. This was 275,000 combat deaths, and 130,000 non-combat deaths. These were aircraft crashes, vehicle crashes, and other accidents.
Cell phone distraction causes 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries in the United States every year
Overall, there are more deaths from car accidents than both train collisions and airline crashes. However, when comparing train collisions and airline crashes specifically, there are typically more deaths from airline crashes due to the larger passenger capacity and higher speeds involved.
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No.Here are the leading causes of death in the U.S. according to the Center for Disease Control, heart disease #1 (Traffic crashes, probably under accidental deaths) :Number of deaths for leading causes of death:Heart disease: 616,067Cancer: 562,875Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 135,952Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 127,924Accidents (unintentional injuries): 123,706Alzheimer's disease: 74,632Diabetes: 71,382Influenza and Pneumonia: 52,717Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 46,448Septicemia: 34,828
I have no data on total deaths in 2006, but there were 43,200 deaths in traffic crashes in 2005.
Traffic crashes by far. Most recent stats I could find showed about 29,500 total firearm deaths in the US (not just handguns, all firearms). Traffic crashes accounted for about 42,500 deaths. If you're talking about accidental deaths (that is, many of the 29,500 firearm deaths are intentional), traffic accidents are much, much more likely to cause a death than an accidental firearm death.