The injury literature often distinguishes between injuries arising from intentional behaviours and those that are most often unintentional or accidental. Interpersonal violence, self-harm and suicide are all considered intentional injuries as they arise from purposeful actions directed towards oneself or others. Unintentional injuries on the other hand include road injuries, other transport injuries, falls, drownings, burns, poisonings, workplace injuries and other ‘accidents’ (e.g., freezing), and are often further categorised into transport and non-transport. Categorizing injuries according to intention is commonplace in the literature and assumed to have utility for injury management and prevention. For instance, prevention approaches to intentional injuries often focus on characteristics of individuals and their behaviours, while unintentional prevention initiatives are more often concerned with how people, objects and environments interact []. It is nevertheless worth noting that some have questioned whether categorisation limits collaboration and advancement of prevention efforts, as the underlying motivations of individuals are not always clear-cut (e.g., some burns are intentional, as are some road injuries), and groups share many similar characteristics, including effective prevention approaches (see on policy and interventions below) []., In one of the most comprehensive reviews of individual-level data, Taylor et al. [16] demonstrated strong dose–response relationships between amount of alcohol consumed in the past 3 h and odds of both motor vehicle and non-motor vehicle injury., In 2017–2018, an average of 3.4 million emergency department (ED) visits for motor vehicle crash injuries occurred annually (1, 2). Most persons injured or killed in motor vehicle crashes are occupants (3). Medical care costs and productivity losses associated with crash injuries and deaths exceeded $75 billion in 2017 (4). This report presents ED visit rates for motor vehicle crashes by age .