The suicide rate among U.S. middle school students doubled from 2007 to 2014, surpassing for the first time the incidence of youngsters ages 10 to 14 who died in car crashes, a federal report released on Thursday said.
The rise in middle school suicides, from an annual rate of 0.9 per 100,000 to 2.1 per 100,000, came as traffic deaths in that age group declined to 1.9 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The motor vehicle mortality rate for 2014 marked a 60 percent decline from 1999, when the government began tracking such figures.
