Deadly Roads

I was just looking at the statistics for deaths due to road accidents. Now it was no surprise that they are high enough in India given the way DL can be obtained and lightings on the road. But yes I was astonished when I saw the death toll in USA with so advanced technologies and where I know for fact that people do fail to get DL.

Car Crash Stats: There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes in the United States -- one death every 13 minutes.

Now this is from 2005 but even in 2005 USA was advanced enough. So we can be certain that cause of road accidents is not lack of technology. Then how can they be tackled. Because 45000 is a large number. If they can spend billions for the killing of few thousand in WTC 2001 then they must surely be doing something for 45,000.
And what does it mean for us? If we anywhere fear death then we must fear it the most on roads. Cause this is the only place where most people die, I guess for most of the countries.

LINK to the page which I found. Seems genuine enough.