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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Interesting. Do you have any stats on that? I'd love to see the study.
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Bikes
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Bicycle-related injuries account for approximately 900 deaths, 23,000 hospital admissions, 580,000 emergency department visits and more than 1.2 million physician visits per year in the United States, resulting in an estimated cost of more than $8 billion annually.
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Baseball
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WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that safety equipment for baseball could significantly reduce the amount and severity of 58,000 (or almost 36 percent of) baseball-related injuries to children each year.
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CPSC analyzed the 88 reports it received of baseball-related deaths of children between 1973 and 1995. It found that 68 of the deaths were caused by ball impact and 13 were caused by bat impact. Of the 68 ball impact deaths, 38 resulted from blows to the chest while 21 deaths were caused by a ball hitting a player's head.
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Video games
I was unable to find an article that listed any statistics in regards to game-related deaths. There have been occurances of individuals over-exhausting themselves, and an isolated case of game-provoked murder in Shanghai. All I could find in the US were a few occurances of lawyers looking for a scapegoat, though my article-finding skills aren't the best 
Just food for thought.
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"'There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person,' says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex."
-- From an IGN game review.
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