Helping News                                                  December, 2012 Issue 53




Suicide Now Kills More Americans Than Car Crashes
Megan Gannon, News EditorDate: 25 September 2012 Time: 11:00 AM ET 
 
 
Suicide deaths increased 15 percent between 2000 and 2009, finds a November 2012 study in the American Journal of Public Health.

Suicide has surpassed car 
accidents as the No. 1 cause
 of injury-related death in 
the United States, according 
to new research.

From 2000 to 2009, the death rate 
for suicide ticked up 15 percent 
while it decreased 25 percent for 
car wrecks, the study found. Improved traffic safety measures might be responsible for the decline in car-crash deaths. As such, the researchers said similar attention and resources are needed to prevent suicide and other injury-related mortality.

Death by unintentional poisoning, which includes drug overdoses, came in third behind car wrecks and suicide after increasing 128 percent from 2000 to 2009. The data from 2010 would push that rise in death rate even higher, to 136 percent, study researcher Ian Rockett told LiveScience in an email. Prescription painkiller overdoses might be to blame for this drastic rise. Recent research has shown that in some states painkiller overdoses may be responsible for mor deaths than suicide or car crashes. 



Previous Newsletter

Bing search

Yahoo Search

Allpages

Google

More information coming...