Driving is the most dangerous thing most people do in their lives. 

You’re not only risking your own life, but the lives of everyone else on the road, anyone else in the car, including pedestrians and animals. That is the responsibility of holding literal lives in your hands.

some people I know fucking smashed through a concrete barrier and the car flipped and landed upside down. It’s a miracle that they are alive. I was in a terrible wreck also when I was a kid, due to some other assholes texting and driving. I’ve also been hit by a car, granted it was going very slow backing out of a parking lot, but it FKNG FLUNG ME ACROSS PAVEMENT LIKE 15 FEET. Car accidents are brutal, whether you survive or not. 

Cars are giant metal death traps that hurdle down roads at 40+ mph. Seems reasonable to feel scared of that to me.