My first thought was "what the hell does health have to do with accidents?", which I learned was justified by the first article I found after googling for "life expectancy without accidents": http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2011/11/23/the-myth-of-amer...
>A few years back, Robert Ohsfeldt of Texas A&M and John Schneider of the University of Iowa asked the obvious question: what happens if you remove deaths from fatal injuries from the life expectancy tables? Among the 29 members of the OECD, the U.S. vaults from 19th place to…you guessed it…first. Japan, on the same adjustment, drops from first to ninth.