DRUNK DRIVERS
Every two minutes, a person is injured in a drunk driving crash.
In 2013, 10,076 people died in drunk driving crashes - one every 52 minutes - and 290,000 were injured in drunk driving crashes.
http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/about/drunk-driving-statistics.html
FIREARMS (HOMOCIDE VS. SUICIDE)
According to the FBI, in 2012, there were 8,855 total firearm-related homicides in the US, with 6,371 of those attributed to handguns.[3] 61% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. are suicides.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States
DROWNING IN POOLS (NOT TOTAL DROWNING VICTIMS)
Data on “drowning vs. gun death” To summarize the data from around the year 2000 (for ONLY the United States) 550 children under the age of 10 drown each year in the approx. 11,000 privately-owned backyard swimming pools. This does not include bathtubs, public swimming pools, hot tubs, lakes, rivers, oceans, etc. Compare that to 175 children under the age of 10 are killed each year by the approx. 200 million privately-owned guns (probably finding Mommy or Daddy’s gun and playing with it). Therefor, likelihood of death by private pool is 1 in 11,000 vs. 1 in 1 million-plus by death by private gun.
Data can be found in the book titled FREAKONOMICS by Levitt & Dubner in the chapter: “What makes a perfect parent?”
DEATH BY DOCTOR (PREVENTABLE MEDICAL ERRORS)
The way IT is designed remains part of the problem
WASHINGTON | July 18, 2014
It's a chilling reality – one often overlooked in annual mortality statistics: Preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. – third only to heart disease and cancer – claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year. At a Senate hearing Thursday, patient safety officials put their best ideas forward on how to solve the crisis, with IT often at the center of discussions.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/deaths-by-medical-mistakes-hit-records