If you check out CDC's interactive visualization on leading causes of death by age group (or see figure below), you'll see that for ages 1-44, the leading cause of death is "Unintentional Injury". But what exactly are "Unintentional Injury"'s? If you explore the CDC website, you'll see that the majority of "Unintentional Injury"'s are from motor vehicles.
This repo separates out deaths from motor vehicles and regraphs the CDC plot. You'll see that cars are one of the most common causes of death for broad swathes of healthy Americans.
This is a work in progress! Feedback and feature ideas are welcome on Github. You can play around with the data cleaning and plotting on Replit
Created by Charles Yang