More teenagers die due to motor vehicle accidents than any other single cause. Nothing else is even close.
Source: The Teen Driver (Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention and Committee on Adolescence). PEDIATRICS, Vol. 118(6), December 2006. The chart on the right shows the top four causes of death in teenagers: Automobile accidents (MVA's), homicide, suicide, and other (nonvehicular) accidents. Look at how auto accidents compare to the next three most common causes of death in teenagers.
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