No one likes to contemplate it, but accidents result in over 161,000 deaths per year in the United States. About 58.6 in every 100,000 individuals will die of accidental injury or homicide this year. Unintentional injury is the 5th leading cause of death in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Of these, if past numbers hold constant, about 34,000 people will die in falls over the next year (10.4 per 100,000 persons), 40,327 individuals will die in traffic accidents (12.3 per 100,000) and 58,335 will die as a result of unintentional poisoning (17.8 per 100,000 people). About…