Image Only: Middle Schoolers as Likely to Die From Suicide as From Traffic Accidents

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From NY Times:  Full Text

It is now just as likely for middle school students to die from suicide as from traffic accidents.

That grim fact was published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They found that in 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, the suicide rate for children ages 10 to 14 had caught up to their death rate for traffic accidents.