Motor vehicle crashes – a leading cause of injury in the U.S. generally and consistently the leading cause of U.S. work-related fatalities – impose a “terrible public health burden and economic cost” on Americans, according to a "Vital Signs" bulletin just released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
More than 2.5 million Americans went to hospital emergency departments and nearly 200,000 were then hospitalized because of motor vehicle crash injuries in 2012, CDC reports.