What's perhaps more distressing is the fact that this comes AFTER we removed a huge chunk of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users from the equation by pu

What's perhaps more distressing is the fact that this comes AFTER we removed a huge chunk of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users from the equation by putting them in a car for virtually all trips. If you fill a pool with sharks then shark attack deaths will fall to 0 pretty quickly, after all! But it doesn't mean the pool is safe.