If a country has 1 billion population but has only one car, even if this car kills 100 people/day, if calculate death/capita, it will be small. But you cannot say car is safe in this country. In other words, death/capita is meanless. Death/car is more meaningful and that data is available in the link you provided.
Ideally, death/car/hour is even more meaningful but such data would be hard to obtain.