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Why accidents aren't accidental

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Accidental Death

When we talk about accidental death, what we're talking about is unintentional injury related death. And so one thing that we see is not these racialized and economic differences in accidental death. They appear especially in these policy and interstructure related deaths. We pretty much all choke to death across states and racial lines, different local economies. The same of choking related death. But indigenous people are more than twice as likely as white people to be killed by a car crossing the street. There's quite a bit of conditional exposure in whether or not a house fire is deadly,. Whether or not a traffic crash is deadly. Certain people have less opportunities to survive their mistakes.

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