At 40, you are more prone to accidental death: Study

An Australian study has suggested that the age most prone to accidental death in humans is 40. The findings in the survey, by a life insurer, were based on Australian Bureau of Statistics and other Commonwealth government data. “Forty is the most dangerous year of all, and most people don’t even know it,”the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Suncorp Life chief Geoff Summerhayes as saying. The silver lining, he added, was that those aged 40 to 50 were “typically better insured than most other age groups”. To arrive at the figure, the insurer averaged the age of death across five main causes of accidental death among Australians aged up to 74. They spanned road deaths, poisoning, falls, drowning and choking, and counted workplace deaths in each category.
Source:Internet