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Many accidents can occur while hunting and they are usually fatal. Luckily, most hunting accidents can be prevented by employing careful hunting practices. The most common type of hunting accident is not identifying a target to shoot at.
On average, there are around 1,000 hunting accidents each year in the US, resulting in approximately 100 fatalities.
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In total, they were 1,324 fatal car accidents in the state of Pennsylvania in the year of 2010. The total number of accidents was well over the 150,000 mark.
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I don't know how many accidents but there's about 43,000 people killed by car accidents per year. Hope that helps.
According to the Center for Disease Control in the year 2000 (the year with most complete data available) there have been 776 fatal and 23,237 nonfatal firearm accidents. This gives us a total of 24,013. CDC has no data on non-fatal accidents in other years, but the number of fatal firearm accidents declined to 642 in 2006.
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Bowhunting accounts for less than 2% of hunting accidents/injuries in the U.S. per year. Per 100,000 people, hunting contributes 7.4 injuries which require hospital attention, whereas football contributes 2,171.1. This suggests that hunting is 293 times safer than football.