What Causes Unintentional Injuries

The leading causes of death for unintentional injury include: unintentional poisoning (e.g., drug overdoses), unintentional motor vehicle (m.v.) traffic, unintentional drowning, and unintentional falls.

What are the five most common causes of unintentional injury?

Cause-specific unintentional injuries included falls, motor vehicle collisions, poisoning, suffocation, fire/burns, and drowning.

What are common unintentional injuries?

Some of the most common types of unintentional injuries in the United States include: motor vehicle accidents, suffocation, drowning, poisoning, fire/burns, falls and sports and recreation [2].