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"because pretty much all deaths at younger ages are unusual." I would think most of those deaths are car accidents, heart attack, stroke, cancer, and drugs. I

• somenameforme 4mo ago
  There's some data on that here [1] - page 19. It depends on the exact age range. For everybody under 45 the leading cause of death is unintentional injury by a wide margin. It's unclear what percent of that would be car crashes. Cancer and other stuff catches up pretty quickly in the 45-54 age range and becomes overwhelmingly dominant by the 55+ group. So it depends on exactly what age range we're talking about. [1] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr74/nvsr74-10.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr74/nvsr74-10.pdf