Americans more likely to die from opioid overdose than motor vehicle crash, report says.

NBC Nightly News (1/14, story 11, 1:50, Holt, 9.3M) reported, “Safety experts” are “grimly noting for the first time ever, the odds of dying from an overdose are higher than dying in a car crash.”

        The New York Times (1/14, Mazzei, 17.59M) reports that “for the first time, Americans are more likely to die of an opioid overdose than in a vehicle crash.” The most common causes of death, however, remain heart disease and cancer, according to a report from the National Safety Council.

        USA Today (1/14, Molina, 12.05M) reports researchers used data from the National Center for Health Statistics and “found the lifetime odds of dying by an accidental opioid overdose were one in 96, while the odds of dying by motor vehicle crash were one in 103.”

        CBS News (1/14, Welch, 4.24M) reports on its website that the risk of dying from an opioid overdose is greater than the risk “of dying from a fall, a gun assault, pedestrian accident, or drowning.”

        Also covering the story are the Huffington Post (1/14, Golgowski, 2.63M), The Hill (1/14, Anapol, 2.57M), Newsweek (1/14, Zhao, 2.02M), U.S. News & World Report (1/14, Newman, 2.45M), Vice (1/14, Ockerman, 1.48M), and HealthDay (1/14, Preidt, 21K).