The link you included is not to deaths per mile traveled, it's to miles traveled. Even if deaths are relatively flat, they should be going down as older, less

The link you included is not to deaths per mile traveled, it's to miles traveled. Even if deaths are relatively flat, they should be going down as older, less safe cars age out of the fleet of vehicles on the road. As time goes on, a greater percentage of vehicles have better crash safety, ABS, traction control, better airbag systems, and 'driver assistance' aids. Make sure any stats you do cite include pedestrian and cyclist injuries, but note that exposure data for them is exceptionally poor, because they are typically not included in traffic survey data collected by contractors hired by the government to do traffic counts. Overall pedestrian and cyclist deaths have shot up, by the way, and are the highest ever. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deat...