There is data for Australia as well that shows a similar decline.

It's worth looking at the road deaths data in wikipedia at :

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

The road toll of 1266 in 2023 and 4.8 fatalities per 100K residents is and comparing it to 1970 where it was 3,798 and 30.4 per 100K residents.

Even the trend on deaths per 100K residents is down from 8.15 per 100K residents in 2003 and has declined to 4.4 in 2023.

In terms of road fatalities per billion kilometres driven it's down from 44 per billion kilometres traveled in 1971 to 4.4 in 2020.

It's really interesting to see how many single vehicle accidents there were and the breakdown of who was killed.

From : https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/australias-catastrophi... "48 per cent of deaths recorded were drivers, while 20 per cent were motorcyclists, 16 per cent were passengers and 12.5 per cent were pedestrians.

304 women were killed over the 12 months, while the report recorded 956 male deaths. 792 deaths occurred during weekdays and 474 victims were killed over a weekend."

The breakdown on where the crashes happened is interesting

"A total of 326 people died in major cities across Australia, with 581 deaths in regional Australia and 63 in remote or very remote parts of the country."

Given that the vast majority of Australians live in major cities it's surprising.

It's really surprising how many accidents are single vehicle :

"Out of 1266 deaths, 490 victims were involved in multiple-vehicle road incidents, whereas 776 people who died were involved in single-vehicle crashes."

On top of this it should be added that in a review of fatalities in Victoria ~52% of the crashes involved a driver who tested positive for alcohol or drugs or both.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00014...

41% of fatalities are estimated to involve speeding.

https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/topics-tips/spee...