Thanks. This is from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Browsing through this I found:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Accident...

What is up with poisoning in the early 40s?

The page for this graph links to the source of the data, which is at: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/deaths-by-demograph...

As I suspected, poisoning most likely includes drug overdose. They have this comment about the 2023 data:

> #1: Poisoning: 100,304 deaths

> Largely due to the opioid epidemic affecting millions of people in the United States

You can see more recent data than 2004 in their interactive charts. It is interesting to see that deaths from road accidents has much reduced for teenagers and young adults, compared to the rest of the population.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks.

per capita is a bit weird, maybe people in the UK don't drive as much.

Less than in the US, but I imagine similar to the other European countries.

One thing that is not being discussed is that cars have become a lot wafer - for both people in the car and for pedestrians they might hit.

For the pedestrians they might hit the opposite has happened in the US as cars have been replaces with giant trucks and SUVs with extremely poor visibility.

The US is a mobility and automobile obsessed society. Walking and cycling are usually associated with exercise or inability to drive due to lack of resources.

Combine that with an obsession to make cars available to anyone, even if they are known dangerous. Look up videos on YouTube of police pursuits in Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Michigan. Those aren't exceptions, they are glimpses into a mass pathology. I believe Madison, Wisconsin was tracking multiple police pursuits per day in recent years. The subjects there frequently and deliberately drive on the wrong side of roads to compel the police to terminate the pursuits.

What the hell is going on in Russia?

Poor + lots of car usage.

Odd to use per capita here, to make a useful comparison it should be per mile driven.