"Approximately 75% of avalanche deaths are due to asphyxiation; up to 25%, to trauma" from http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/283/17/2266 (although you can't see the full text of the article there, i got that blurb from what showed up on the google search page)
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Date: 2005-03-20 07:40 pm (UTC)from http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/283/17/2266 (although you can't see the full text of the article there, i got that blurb from what showed up on the google search page)
"Although 25 percent of avalanche deaths are due to trauma, most victims asphyxiate."
http://www.snowmobile.ca/mha_internal/article.php?mode=flat&sid=107
"Most avalanche deaths are due to suffocation."
http://www.me.uwaterloo.ca/undergrad/482projects-w2004.htm
my google search was "avalanche deaths are" in quotation marks, heh.