: Car Crashes
Nearly 700,000 strokes occur in the United States each year, with about 150,000 deaths, making stroke the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer
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Strokes are responsible for 10% of deaths worldwide, and are the second leading cause of death in the western world
Lung, stomach, liver, colon and breast cancer cause the most cancer deaths each year.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US.
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Approximately 3,500 people die from drowning in the United States each year. It is the fifth leading cause of unintentional injury death in the country.
There are are thousands of agriculture related accidents each year. The majority of injury comes from machinery such as tractors or thrashers. The second leading piece of machinery causing injury is known as grain-machinery, or grain-handling machinery. Grain machinery is also the second leading cause of agriculture death. The leading cause is an overturned tractor.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of unintentional injury-related teen fatalities each year. Factors such as inexperience, distracted driving, and impaired driving contribute to the high rate of teen deaths in motor vehicle accidents.