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Which are likely if you are young...

Sport-related accident for instance. Especially ski accidents... and Austria is a land of mountains, and ski is very popular there.

Young people are more generally more likely to have accidents. Car-accident are also more prevalent (drinking...).

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That's not an inherent risk of being young, that's a risk from doing these things. In fact these activities are safer while young, if only due to a better reaction time.

Being young is associated with risk-taking (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396566/ for instance for some references. In the article, "young" means less than 25). So you're more likely to ski less safely, for instance.

Young drivers are also really more likely to have a car accident (ask car insurance), not because they are this age or that age, but because they less experienced.

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