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Motor Vehicle Crashes are the Leading Causes of Death For Persons 1 through 44 Years of Age

  
                                                       -- CDC's Age Sub-groupings ---
Cause of Death 
                            1-44 
     
    1-4 
   5-14 
   15-24 
    25-44
 
Motor vehicle accidents 
                 27,988 
     
    834 
  2,002 
  10,624 
   14,528
Malignant neoplasms 
                     25,264 
     
    440 
  1,035 
   1,642 
   22,147
HIV Infection 
                           23,538 
     
    149 
    174 
     420 
   22,795
All other accidents and adverse effects 
 18,114 
     
  1,321 
  1,519 
   3,248 
   12,026
Homicide and legal intervention 
         16,717 
     
    395 
    513 
   6,548 
    9,261
Diseases of heart 
                       17,729 
     
    207 
    341 
     920 
   16,261
 
All causes 
                             196,015 
     
  5,947 
  8,465 
  32,699 
  148,904

Current data reveals the same pattern.

Extrapolated by Daniel Convissor from data on the Center for Disease Control's web site
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/datawh/statab/pubd/leadcod.htm.
Last updated 3/24/98