Actually you are far safer in a car.
General aviation stats show you are about as safe in a plane as you are on a motorbike and at about three times the risk that you are in a car.
If you fly a speciality, experimental, amateur built, floats or amphibian, etc the risk is substantially higher.
FoF and IO540
Know what you mean about nowhere to go. If I want to go more than 5 miles from home base I am flying in the mountains and often there is NOWHERE to go. Most of the time It is not even a matter of choice, 60 deg slope on rocks, ,60 deg slope with trees, valley bottom huge boulders and trees , well that may be a choice but the result is going to be the same.
As for finding someone to crash in front of, planes disappear for years only five or ten miles from civilisation here, once they fall through the canopy even serious searching does not find them.