While I agree about good measurements and need for baselines, death rate isn't it. When cars collide, you get really high number of injuries and deaths. For example there are almost 20x more injuries to pedestrians than deaths. It's nor fair to exclude them from those stats, since that can be a permanent and life changing injury.

We probably don't get any more people decapitated with the steering column. But it doesn't mean they are completely fine after the same collision.