The Link Between Suicide and Fatal Motor Vehicle Accidents Among the Veteran Community.

Why it’s highly likely we are underestimating the prevalence of suicides by not looking closer into the mindsets of veterans who wreck their vehicles, especially single-vehicle accidents with no reasonable explanation other than they lost control.

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“‘Before suicides became the leading cause of non-battle injuries, motor vehicle injuries were,” said Bruce H. Jones, a physician and epidemiologist who heads the Army’s injury prevention program at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland”(1).

Is There a Connection between Suicide and Fatal Motor Vehicle Wrecks?

Suicide rates are still increasing, but I think that they’re vastly underestimated because we aren’t accounting for every method of suicide available. We count the usual ones, by guns, hanging, overdosing, etc, but one way I don’t think we’re really looking at is the rate of single-car accidents that result in the death or serious injury of only one person.

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