Accidental Deaths, Including Drug Overdoses, Rose Over Past Decade.

reports over 136,000 Americans died from accidents in 2014, an increase of 15.5% from a decade earlier, according to a new report from the National Safety Council. The report also found that deaths from accidental poisonings, including drug overdoses, increased 78% during the same time period, making them more common than fatal car crashes. Opioid overdoses alone killed 13,486 people in 2014, according to the report. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_ACCIDENTAL_DEATHS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT