While I somewhat agree, it is not necessarily the aircrafts fault, he did cheery pick his years. Here is the complete list for the R-44:
R-44 Accident data base
A comment to provoke thought:
What if Mercedes came out with a car that had some "unfavorable" characteristics, and had similar accident rates, do you think there would be a recall and redesign?
And take a look at the very first R-44 accident on the NTSB page:
NTSB - Venti Crash
The pilot was the son of Frank Venti, who was a financial backer of the R-44 program and agreed to purchase the very first available one off the production line, serial # 4 or 5 I believe. I operated serial # 7.
It was "rumored" at the time that the pilot had "parker penned" his logbook. Even if not true, it shows the aircraft is not really suited to low time pilots.
Safety Board investigators attempted to validate and reconstruct the pilot's experience. On November 11, 1992, the pilot attended a three day Robinson R22 Safety Course, conducted by Robinson Helicopters. At that time, the pilot indicated that he had accrued 425 hours of flight time. Robinson Helicopters required 500 hours of total time to act as pilot-in-command of an R44. On May 28, 1993, the pilot attended a one day R44 Pilot Check-Out training course at Robinson Helicopters. As verification that the pilot that accrued 500 hours of flight time, the pilot sent a facsimile of two pages of a logbook to Robinson Helicopters that reflected a total time of 525.2 hours. The logbook pages were not dated.
At the conclusion of the R44 training, the instructor pilot from Robinson Helicopters issued the pilot a certificate of training after finding that the pilot's performance was satisfactory to fly the R44 as a 2-place helicopter for at least 50 initial hours. To qualify to carry more than 1 passenger, the pilot needed to return for another flight check after gaining the required R44 flight time. On July 22, 1993, the pilot returned to Robinson Helicopters for his second flight check in the R44. The instructor pilot did not require the pilot to produce any verification that the pilot had accrued an additional 50 hours of R44 flight time. The instructor pilot verbally acknowledged that the pilot was authorized to carry more than one passenger; however, he did not issue a new certificate of training at that time.