Nevertheless, Dudley Curtis points out that “over the last decade or more, the number of deaths on the roads in the United States has risen, while in Europe it has fallen slowly, but it has still fallen”.

In the meantime in Europe we want to halve the road deaths by 2030 and have no deaths on roads by 2050, and we are already far from being on track to hit the target:

https://urban-mobility-observatory.transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/european-commission-releases-preliminary-figures-road-fatalities-2024-2025-03-21_en