How many times a week do you walk or bike to buy groceries? If it's one or less, you lack perspective in this space.
Anyone who has been nearly hit by a car while walking understands why violence is the correct term.
Secondly, your chart seems to be looking at motorist fatalities rather than pedestrian deaths caused by motor vehicles. This is what you want: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
Of course if pedestrians are just an another inconvenience in front of your windshield, it's all hysterics.