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Fifteen percent (15%) of all accidental deaths are caused by slip and fall accidents, second only to motor vehicle accidents. There are many different kinds of slip, trip and fall incidents. A few examples are trips over poorly aligned sidewalk edges, falls down stairs that are in poor condition, falls due to inadequate lighting or items not built to code, and slips on food and foreign substances in restaurants and supermarkets.
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, approximately 2,000 people are killed in motorcycle accidents each year, with another 50,000 people being injured. Motorcyclists are about 16 times more likely than those in cars to die in a motor vehicle crash.
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According to the National Academy of Sciences, up to 98,000 people are killed each year in the United States by medical errors in hospitals - far more than the number of people that die from car accidents, breast cancer or AIDS
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It is estimated that 8 million people sustain head and brain injuries each year in the United States and that at least 2 million of those will be permanently injured. Auto accidents are a leading cause of head and brain injuries.
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