> Dog attacks and bites are…way more common than car accidents
This is nonsense.
There are on “average 337,103 ED visits each year for dog bites,” with an “annual incidence” of “1.1 per 1,000” [1]. This makes them “the 13th most common injury,” exceeding “those occurring on motorcycles (14th), to pedestrians (15th) and firearm gunshot injuries (16th).” These result, however, in just 30 to 50 deaths per year [2].
Motor vehicles killed over 40 thousand Americans in 2021 and 2022 [3]. They are the fourth most common injury in EDs, and by far the more fatal one.
This is nonsense.
There are on “average 337,103 ED visits each year for dog bites,” with an “annual incidence” of “1.1 per 1,000” [1]. This makes them “the 13th most common injury,” exceeding “those occurring on motorcycles (14th), to pedestrians (15th) and firearm gunshot injuries (16th).” These result, however, in just 30 to 50 deaths per year [2].
Motor vehicles killed over 40 thousand Americans in 2021 and 2022 [3]. They are the fourth most common injury in EDs, and by far the more fatal one.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431755/
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_Uni...
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...