You are incorrect.

Surely it's more complicated than that. Let's not sound like raving lunatics, now. To hit someone with a hammer requires either a really careless person getting in the way of your construction efforts, or a specific intent to harm by aiming your hammer at someone.

Now, taking the construction analogy, it could also mean poor protections. Consider the scaffolding that goes up around buildings, to protect pedestrians from falling tools and other such dangers which stem from a legitimate activity (construction).

In the same way, if someone is using a car to get from point A to point B (a legitimate activity), accidents, "dropped tools," are bound to happen. As long as humans are involved, it will happen. I know some protest the term "accident" but until someone comes up with a more accurate term, it's the best one we have to describe "bad things that happen due to human error." I'd say a careless construction worker dropping a tool is pretty much the same as a careless driver hitting a pedestrian, though perhaps with less adverse consequences in the former case.

What matters is if there are appropriate protections in place. It looks, from the data, as if there are not.

That's what needs to be fixed. Both by reducing car use, regulating drivers more (speed limits, etc.), and better street design for behavior modification and actual physical protection.