Did you look at the pedestrian deaths graph/100,000 at the bottom of that page? It's not just 'broadly to 50 years ago', the number of deaths has been decreasin

Did you look at the pedestrian deaths graph/100,000 at the bottom of that page? It's not just 'broadly to 50 years ago', the number of deaths has been decreasing, or pretty steady that whole time. Anyway, it was more just the way it was written that was annoying, like the author was trying to pull a fast one on the reader, cherry-picking stats to make a point.