Health and Fitness

CDC Report Shows Motor Vehicle Crash Injuries are Frequent and Costly

Americans spend more than 1 million days in the hospital each year from crash injuries

Graphic:  Full impact of motor vehicle crashes
Full impact of motor vehicle crashes. Entire Infographic Adobe PDF file

Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014.  More than 2.5 million people went to the emergency department (ED) – and nearly 200,000 of them were hospitalized – because of motor vehicle crash injuries in 2012, according to the latest Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Lifetime medical costs for these…

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