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Oct 5, 2025

4 min

Are older drivers killed more often in accidents than younger drivers?

While teenagers are statistically involved in more crashes per capita, drivers aged 70 and older face a higher fatal crash rate per mile traveled. This difference is largely due to increased physical fragility, which makes older adults more vulnerable to serious injury or death when an accident occurs, even at low speeds. The answer to "Are older drivers killed more often in accidents than younger drivers?" is complex, involving both crash frequency and post-accident vulnerability.

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Oct 3, 2025

3 min

Which is the riskiest age, and why?

According to CDC data from 2021, the crude death rate is highest for those aged 85 and over, making it the most statistically fatal age group. However, the answer to which is the riskiest age is more complex, as risk is not uniform across a lifetime but changes in form, severity, and cause at every stage. Different decades of life are defined by entirely different sets of dominant dangers, from reckless behavior in youth to chronic illness in later life.

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