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It's rare but with enough traffic volume eventually most things happen, eg:

on a highway with no physical divider a car executing a poor overtaking procedure can pull in sharply after passing and violently "pit manoeuvre" the vehicle just ahead of it, causing that vehicle to spin 270 degrees and present the drivers side to oncoming traffic.

Rare physics aside, a highway t-bone by an oncoming truck on a turning car is enough to cause fatalities and destroy a car regardless of which side presents.

That said, in Australia country roads are far more dangerous than city streets:

    It found the per capita road death rate for regional Australians in 2022 was 10.6 deaths per 100,000 people, while the corresponding rate for urban Australians was 2.24 deaths per 100,000 people.

which is likely also true in the US.

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In the US, urban crash deaths took the lead in 2016:

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/urban...

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Beware of statistics - the quote I gave above re: Australia is 100% true - but Australia is overwhelmingly an urban nation clinging to the fringes of the continent.

There are absolutely (in raw numbers) more urban automotive fatalities than rural in Australia but proportionally more (per 100,000 drivers) rural deaths from driving.

ie. Country driving is riskier.

Interestingly your link appears (to my eye) to be confusing - the first graph is described as proportional but it's not "proportional" in the sense of being "normalised", it's proportional in the sense of showing a percent division of the total absolute number; as more and more people live in urban areas, more and more people die in urban areas (thus obfuscating the relative dangers).

The second graph gets closer, showing the rural US areas still 'winning' the death stakes in terms of risk per miles travelled.