Vintage Cars: A Danger to Public Health?

After two crashes involving vintage cars killed three people this summer in Maryland, a Baltimore Sun story suggests classics should be banned from the roads. Both crashes took place on interstates. On July 1, a man and his 10-year-old daughter were killed when their '29 Ford Model A was rear ended, tossing them from the car. Another man was killed when his '36 Ford. was hit head-on. Both cars were moving far slower than other traffic, the news report says.
With top speeds of 50, no seat belts, and brakes and handing worse than modern riding lawnmowers, it's pretty clear that early Fords are far more dangerous than your '98 Taurus. Get into a bad wreck and you're probably a gonner. In the Sun story, enthusiasts say they do their best to keep on the back streets instead of the interstates. But on long-distance rallies, that's next to impossible, they say.
We'd hate to see these cars banned from the interstate. Seems like a classic case of blaming the victim. At the same time, you wouldn't catch us behind the wheel, or in the passenger seat, of anything pre-1950 or so on busy highway, unless it was far from stock.