I understand what the writer probably meant, but it sounds like these lighter traffic deaths are MORE dead somehow than they would otherwise have been. You know, REALLY dead, rather than just barely so.

Apparently because there are fewer people on the road, there are fewer traffic deaths, but the percentage of deadly accidents is up, because people are being more careless I guess. I read an article about it, but it didn't have this headline, which is terrible.

Ugh! Headlines - even for News shows - are getting butchered.

There used to be an Editor (or two) that checked that everything was correct - I'm betting there isn't now.

Just like at newspapers - more and more staff are let go and they rely on spell check - which has no idea what order words need to go in - in order to make actual sense.