My issue with comparing these statistics is that on the highway I see no shortage of reckless driving: speeding 20 over, weaving traffic, etc. Subtract this population (maybe by taking away their license and building public transit for them) and what do the numbers look like? Your seat belt stat supports this, a lot of drivers aren’t even trying not to die.

Of course, highway driving is the least dangerous (per passenger mile) since everything is so predictable, I don’t know how many deaths are caused by t-bones at intersections but that at least should disappear now that auto-radar brakes are a thing… (tesla thinks it’s too good for radar of course, even tho it can’t recognize a god damn fire truck is in the way)