No, the over generalization is you using all hunting. It is more like saying 'don't speed' or 'don't text and drive.' The fact that you have to specify "smart safe hunters" to have drives be safe automatically implies that drives involve more risk than other styles of hunting. How much more, I don't have data to specify. But, the data does say drives account fora noticable portion of accidents.
https://freerangeamerican.us/deadly-hunting-accidents/ I'm also guessing far fewer hunting hours are spent in drives, meaning the risk is much higher when compared to other styles of hunting.
I think you just didn't understand what the point I was trying to make. Since you brought up some statistics I figure lets actually look at them...since my hypothesis was just that a guess.
We will use the Wisconsin DOT numbers (.89 fatalities per 100million miles driven and 51 injuries per 100million miles driven)
wisconsindot.gov
Wisconsin DNR numbers. (554,000 rifle hunters)
Wisconsin has a 9 day rifle season. Lets say you drive roughly 111 miles a day on average...most people average 41 miles/day regular life habits but during hunting season you have to drive to your spots etc.
1 in 100,000 drivers in the state of Wisconsin will die in a 9 day period averaging 111 miles a day.
1 in 2,000 drivers in the state of Wisconsin will be injured in a 9 day period averaging 111 miles a day.
(based off of injury/death rate per million miles driven)
554K gun hunters in wisconsin. 1 fatality and 8 injuries during the 9 day rifle season.
1 in 554,000 hunters killed in the state of wisocnsin
1 in 69,000 hunters gun related injury in the state of wisconsin during the 9 day rifle season.
I guess i will stick to my original guess that you are more likely to be injured or die driving your vehicle during the 9 day rifle season than injured by a gun during the hunting season. In fact you are 5x more likely...
The reason i am using Wisconsin for an example is that deer drives are a very huge part of the hunting culture and the vast majority of Wisconsin deer hunters have participated in deer drives of some sort.
The only thing "Smart safe hunters" implies is those are the types of hunters I surround myself with in ANY hunting situation. 6 of the 8 gun related injuries in Wisconsin this year were not involving deer drives...but no way of figuring out ratio of hours hunting to hours doing deer drives per capita.
The reason I hunt with smart safe hunters is the same reason I don't jump in passenger seat with a driver that is drunk...