[jsbg]

motor vehicle deaths have always trended down, cars just keep getting safer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

[consp]

Yet in a lot of countries they don't anymore. Here mostly due to pedestrian and cyclist deaths being counted as motor vehicle deaths due to increasing car size and more km driven per capita.

[ljf]

Strange you don't link to the table which tells a different story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

the deaths per 100,000 population has got worse across the last 10 years.