Black Americans are 3.5 times more likely
to visit the ER for car crash injuries
than white patients, CDC report finds
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Betsy Ladyzhets
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/18/2021 12:04:25 PM
Black Americans are much more likely to visit emergency rooms (ERs) than whites for car crash injuries, a new report finds. Newly released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data show that about five out of every 1,000 Americans visit the ER for wounds in motor vehicle accidents.
Researchers found black Americans were much more likely to face car crash injuries with have a rate of 15.2 ER visits for every 1,000 people compared to a rate of 4.3 for every 1,000 for white Americans. Additionally, young adults, those in the South, and those with less comprehensive insurance are also more likely to visit
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/18/2021 12:05:37 PM (No. 819589)
This is how the feds spend our tax dollars. Good thing they're off today in honor of Juneteemph or they'd be making more mischief. FTA: "The CDC says it's not sure why black Americans are more likely to be injured but add that the disparities may have worsened more in recent years due to poverty and even potentially racism."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2021 12:09:46 PM (No. 819591)
Wear your seatbelts, people. That's 90% of whether you get hurt in an accident. Of course, the frequency of driving drunk and drugged also has a big influence, too.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 6/18/2021 12:12:44 PM (No. 819595)
If the numbers are not identical out to the third decimal place, it is racism. Just ask Lori Lightfoot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Califedup 6/18/2021 12:19:24 PM (No. 819598)
I knew it I just knew it. As part of our Systemic Racist System, the white oppressors in the automobile industries have programmed all the computers in our cars to seek out and hit all black people whether driving cars or walking on the streets. Ban all autos and torch the automobile plants!
Who would have ever thunk it - Ex-Dictator Obama, Al Sharpton, and that ancient tottering mummy Obscene Walters were right all along!
By the way could trying to get some o' dat free insurance money be part of the higher visits to an emergency room? Just Wondering.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DARling 6/18/2021 12:28:00 PM (No. 819608)
Seatbelts be racist, yo. If a white man tells you something is helpful, then it must be anti-black and devoutly to be ignored.
My guess would be that lack of seatbelt usage, being under the influence of alcohol or drugs and distracted driving factor into the injuries.
Also, in view of the numbers of black males who commit carjackings, I would be highly unlikely to stop if such a person stepped out in front of my car as I was approaching. I would try my best to go around him but would try to stay in motion if at all possible. Sad that the actions of some blacks make you doubt a lot of them, but I don't intend to die in the name of fairness.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/18/2021 12:28:59 PM (No. 819610)
Cough*** Personal injury lawsuits*** cough cough.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
IowaDad 6/18/2021 12:29:14 PM (No. 819611)
Egads! My devilish plan to equip all new vehicles with skin color detectors and disable their brakes at critical junctures is now working!
Praise the Almighty White God!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Krause 6/18/2021 12:35:22 PM (No. 819619)
Driving and aiming a gun are hard to do.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/18/2021 12:36:08 PM (No. 819621)
They are also 10X’s more likely to visit the ER for gunshot wounds than white people too.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Californian 6/18/2021 12:38:43 PM (No. 819624)
It isn't cars that are racist. You can't sue a car or extract reparations from a car.
Ford, GM, Toyota, BMW, and the other car makers are all racist. They intentionally design vehicles to hurt black people.
Lawsuit.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smcchk 6/18/2021 12:43:08 PM (No. 819631)
Clearly reparations are needed! (Sacarsm)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/18/2021 12:44:01 PM (No. 819633)
So, because they can't drive its somebody else's fault. And, race and poverty may be the problem. Give me a freakin break. Talk about a freakin waste of money for a useless study this is it. How about they show how many times they crashed cars after being chased by a cop. How many times have they crashed a car after they carjacked it or just stole it. How about a study showing the number of crimes they commit while being only 14% of the population, how about a study of how many graduate high school compared to other groups. How about a study showing the amount of damage, in dollars, they do in rioting. Total insanity.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 6/18/2021 12:50:16 PM (No. 819641)
OP and #1 says it all. Cant Wait to see what else the taxpayers will have to do to solve this “problem.”
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/18/2021 12:52:04 PM (No. 819643)
They know that they have no need to follow any traffic laws, just as they are exempt from following any other laws.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
coldoc 6/18/2021 12:58:45 PM (No. 819647)
Bubba wallace, explained.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/18/2021 1:32:35 PM (No. 819690)
'Poverty & racism.'.? Say wha? Blacked out windows and huge gold rims and rubber band tires: stay far away.
I didn't see anything in the article about insurance scams where someone with an old beater intentionally sets a crash and has a Dr. and a lawyer ready to go.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 6/18/2021 1:32:53 PM (No. 819692)
Our government is contaminated with systemic stupidity. Close it all down!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2021 1:38:55 PM (No. 819698)
I guess the cars have optical sensors so that when a black person is at the wheel they crash themselves more often than with white people at the wheel.
Of course, nothing that the driver does has anything at all to do with how many accidents happen, right?
Gee....same exact cars, yet 3.5 times as many blacks in ER......MAYBE blacks get into 3.5 as many accidents? Nah, couldn't be true, right?
Oh, wait - I know - it MUST BE that white folks are ramming their cars into the black folks that causes it, those crazy white supremacists again.
But, but --- I wonder why those white supremacists don't need to go to the ER when they are ramming all those black folks? Any explanations? It's got to be racism, but I can't quite figure it out, and my brain is already in a pretzel getting this far. 🙄
/s off
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
volksford 6/18/2021 1:51:49 PM (No. 819714)
After discharge from hospital the first call goes to Algonquin J Calhoun
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Encore 6/18/2021 2:05:44 PM (No. 819726)
Simple, need documentation for a lawsuit.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/18/2021 2:19:14 PM (No. 819739)
Guns are rigged the same way. Usually they work as expected, but when bLACK people hold them they "just go off" and fire wildly into crowds of strangers, or cause them to commit armed robberies. Even now clever lawyers are planning to work these angles for the betterment of society.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 6/18/2021 2:23:29 PM (No. 819744)
Maybe some of the disparity can be due to fewer Blacks taking Driver Ed IN school?
If so, is this because of dropping out of school before the course is offered, or even if it's offered? You can take such a course outside of school.
But this would be important part of the data, i would think.
It seems to me that THE most important thing for the health and welfare of our fellow citizens who are Black is to make sure the kids get to and from school safely, and make sure the schools are clean and safe(safe for students AND teachers/administrative staff, etc), so learning is paramount and the children can graduate better able to move into adulthood as responsible citizens.
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A while back, I drove a '79 Monte Christo whoop-de. Nobody wanted anything to do with my ride. It was like going down the road in an M1 Abrams.
I was the most respected white boy on the highway. Oh, it got stolen from my driveway in Phx and is probably in Puerto Penasco, Sonora decked out with a cool paint job, air bag suspension, fringe around the furry headliner, dingle balls on the rear view mirror, and the beloved etched rear window stating, "In loving memory, MI hermano, Pablo Mendoza-Felix 1991-2015...cherubs cost too much.
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My bad, I called the Carlo my Christo. I just got used to the name change.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/18/2021 2:52:11 PM (No. 819766)
Oh, Lordy, car crashes be rayssis!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/18/2021 2:56:05 PM (No. 819770)
I don't know what it's like in other parts of the country, but in my corner of S Louisiana, 3 out of every 5 TV ads have a black person stating how much Shyster Ambulance Chaser got him/her or it's Shyster Ambulance Chaser telling you to call him if you are cough, cough, injured in a car accident!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
local500 6/18/2021 3:31:28 PM (No. 819818)
Up next "cars are racist" and this is just setting up the narrative.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
paral04 6/18/2021 4:10:23 PM (No. 819849)
Is that because they get stuff free so why not go to the ER? Or are they just lousy drivers?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 6/18/2021 6:33:34 PM (No. 819943)
So the personal injury legal lotto gets validated. Helps get dey money!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/19/2021 12:01:59 AM (No. 820189)
IT's Free, right...well there it is...
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
pensom2 6/19/2021 1:19:13 AM (No. 820211)
The more useful statistic might be how many of those car crash hospital visits are for whiplash. I'd lay odds that white folks suffer a little whiplash and they choose bed rest and maybe a chiropractic visit or muscle relaxers for a week. Not an immediate visit to the ER for a complete whiplash workup.
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It's because cars are racist against bLACK people specifically, as Hispanics have lower ER usage than WHITE people. Certainly not because they're careless drivers with poor impulse control, or because people on Medicaid get ER care for free, or even because they're looking to scam injury claims on lawsuits.