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It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities. For more details, see Transportation safety in the United States. From the beginning of recorded statistics until the 1970s, total traffic deaths in the United States generally trended upwards, except during the Great Depression and World War II. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year ...
Silent-era star Wallace Reid was badly injured in a train crash during filming in Oregon. His injuries caused him severe pain and the studio supplied him with increasing quantities of morphine so he could keep working. Addicted to morphine and also suffering from alcoholism, Reid died in 1923 at the age of 31. [10] Wet and Warmer (1919).
In 2010, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 52.8 million people died. [2] In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [ 3 ] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side.
Shot and killed in his patrol car while discussing a completed traffic stop with a trainee, who was grazed in the back. The 41-year-old gunman would be convicted of Officer Brenton's murder as well as the firebombing of Seattle Police patrol cars at a maintenance facility nine days prior on July 23, 2015.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
August 14 – Ecuador – At least 24 people were killed and 19 others were injured when a bus struck an all-terrain vehicle and overturned, slamming into three houses on the side of the road in Quito. [260] September 1 – Ecuador – 10 people, including three children died when a bus crashed and overturned in Cuenca. [261]
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