Meanwhile every year, around 40,000 die in car accidents, and we basically don't care.

35,092 people in 2015, to be exact; spread across 32,166 fatal accidents. 8,617 involved a drunk driver. 6,814 involved a pedestrian. 20,003 passengers died on scene. 24,899 victims were male, 5,797 of those were in their 20s. 2 involved occupants older than 100 years old, including one case where a 103 year old driver ran off the road and ended up dying.

9,763 people had to be extricated from their vehicle, 6,865 ended up being a fatality, 2,898 survived.

3,690 fatalities involved a semi truck (or other articulated vehicle) in the surrounding accident. 940 vehicles went airborne during the course of a fatal accident. 8 of those vehicles hit a snowbank and then went airborne. 1 of those vehicles hit a snowbank, went airborne, re-entered the road and then hit another vehicle killing the other driver, a 53 year old white female; the 23 year old male driver who caused the accident survived and was measured to have a 0.145 BAC.

Texas leads the nation for fatal accidents at 3,124 accidents in a population of 26 million. California only had 2,925 fatal accidents in a population of 38 million.

The deadliest hour in any state was Florida with 202 fatal accidents during the 8pm hour. California only had 194 fatal accidents during the 6pm hour, and Texas only had 191 during the 9pm hour.

I get what you mean.. but we track an obscene amount of data about every fatal crash in the US and it's territories. Every case is investigated, documented and published by NHTSA. As a result, given the 8.6 billion road miles driven every single day in the US, we are all exceptionally safe, as long as you stay out of Texas.