Flying is very safe. Crashing, on the other hand, tends to spoil your day.
On a more serious note, last saturday I took someone flying who had never been in an SEP before. Once we were airborne and he'd realised how calm he was, he asked the inevitable question; 'what would you do if the engine stopped & how long before we hit the ground?'
He was a touch surprised when I rattled off the engine failure in flight actions as I don't think he realised that it was something we train for. And he was even more surprised when I said that from 2000' feet we'd probably have more than 2 minutes to get ready to an emergency landing.
But what made him really think was when I turned the question round- if the engine stopped in your car - how long would it that for you to realise the engine had stopped, and how would you cope with no power steering none power-assisted brakes?