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Falls Rate Second
As Cause of Deaths
Of all accidental fatalities in Virginia in 1967, falls were second only to traffic accidents as a cause of death.
Tabulations in the Statistical Annual Report of the Virginia State Department of Health show that of the 2,542 fatal accidents, 1,185 or 46.6 percent were traffic fatalities. Falls accounted for 488 or 19.2 percent of total accidental deaths. Accidental deaths by firearms numbered only 55 or 2.2 percent of the total.
Accidents of all types kill more than 100,000 persons in the United States annually. Only three conditions, namely heart disease, cancer and stroke exceed accidents as the cause of death. These three conditions primarily affect older people but accidents dramatically affect the young and middle age groups. In fact, between the ages of one and thirty-four, accidents are the leading cause of death.
93.8%