Why do underserved communities face higher unintentional injury rates?

The problem is the nature of the advocacy and research. Much of the advocacy and research around unintentional injury-related death looks at these tragedies as behavioral problems — as though people of color, people living in rural areas and people living in low-income communities are more likely to die "by accident" because they are somehow ill-informed or irresponsible. These interventions fail to move the dial and save lives because this is fantastical — these are not behavioral problems. Rather, certain populations die "by accident" more often because they are more likely to be exposed to dangerous conditions — such as driving older cars on older roads, living in firetrap apartments, living near dangerous industries, or working the most dangerous jobs in the least regulated workplaces — not because they are more "accident-prone."