Unfortunately, people have been dying in autos since they first appeared. In the early 1980's, I had a customer that occasionally came into the liquor store that I worked in. He was 92 then and still driving. One of those one in a million guys. As I got to know him, he related some of his history. He was orphaned at a young age in something like 1903-04, when both of his parents were killed in an auto mishap. The first such fatalities in this county. They were driving at night and struck a chain or rope across a road and were decapitated. He was essentially sold to an old order sect farmer by the county courts. After being worked like a farm animal for some years, he left with the circus. Later wound up in Army and in France in WWI. Tough people.