&gt; the death rate<p>While I agree about good measurements and need for baselines, death rate isn&#x27;t it. When cars collide, you get really high number of injuries and deaths. For example there are almost 20x more injuries to pedestrians than deaths. It&#x27;s nor fair to exclude them from those stats, since that can be a permanent and life changing injury.<p>We probably don&#x27;t get any more people decapitated with the steering column. But it doesn&#x27;t mean they are completely fine after the same collision.