{"id":4400,"date":"2019-02-15T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T15:00:19","slug":"quickstats-death-rates-for-motor-vehicle-traffic-injury-by-age-group-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2015-and-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/02\/15\/4400\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Death Rates for Motor Vehicle Traffic Injury, by Age Group \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015 and 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6806a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/figures\/mm6806a8-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2015 to 2017, death rates for motor vehicle traffic injury increased for persons aged 15 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>For infants and children younger than 15 years there was no statistically significant change from 2015 to 2017, and this group had the lowest death rate (2.0 deaths per 100,000) in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The highest death rate in 2017 was for persons aged 75 years or older (19.1), followed by a 15.3 death rate for persons aged 15\u201334 years, and 12.8 for persons aged 35\u201354 and 55\u201374 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Vital Statistics System. Underlying cause of death data, 1999\u20132017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6806a8.htm?\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6806a8.htm?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2015 to 2017, death rates for motor vehicle traffic injury increased for persons aged 15 years or older. For infants and children younger than 15 years there was no statistically significant change from 2015 to 2017, and this group had the lowest death rate (2.0 deaths per 100,000) in 2017. The highest death rate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,20939,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}