I was only comparing deaths to deaths and injuries to violent crimes. If you live in a low-crime area, your stuff is probably safer, and my analysis didn't take that into account.

But I stand by my analysis. It's true that being a victim of a violent crime seems terrifying in a way that being in a car accident doesn't, but that's exactly my point. It doesn't mean you can trivialize the car accidents. The statistics only include the injury-producing accidents, so the minor fender-benders and parking-lot collisions are already left out of the data.

People can be scarred for life by a car accident, too--they can lose limbs, be paralyzed, suffer brain damage.

As far as how the analysis applies to other members of the family, it really comes down to how far they end up traveling by car each day. If shopping, school, and errands can all be done close to home, then the danger of the neighborhood starts to dominate. But a lot of the safe neighborhoods are a long way from other necessities of life besides the job. When your spouse and children have to drive a lot, they face the same traffic risks as you.