Deaths in the 18-29 age group in the US: 2253. I believe this figure is over a longer period than 12 months. So this is going to overestimate covid risk when comparing to 12 months of driving fatalities: Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
The number of people in the 18-24 age group in the US: 43,351,778 This is a narrower group than where deaths are coming from so this is going to overestimate covid risk. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
Covid Death risk per 100,000 = 5.2
Motor vehicle fatality risk for the 15-24 year old age group: 14.1 per 100,000
Source: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit...
COVID's 'danger' isn't so much it's individual lethality - it's that it's highly contagious.
'Young People' are active reservoirs of the disease, and who will pass it on to others.
It's why they have to obey social distancing etc. - even if it's not really going to be very dangerous to them.
Actually you might, if you were the dangerous driver, just not to very many others and it can't spread further than that.
And yes, that's a very good point about the risk for kids that's not often appreciated. That's one of the points I try to make people understand, along with the idea that vaccines aren't perfect (so you can't just immediately drop every precaution once vaxxed), etc.