You can look at all kinds of statistics, and twist them to look flying dangerous, or safe realtive to many other things we do in life. Or, instead, you can approach your desired activity with a professional prepared attitude, avoid dangerous attitudes, and conditions, and probably have a great flying career.
In 33 years, and more than 5000 hours as a pilot, and thousands more as a passenger, I have never "crashed". I have never being involved in an event where a person was injured, or an aircraft damaged to the point it could not be safely flown home. Luck? many would say, and how could I argue. Early on, yup, luck.
As you progress, you learn hopefully quickly enough, to fly with a proper attitude, and competance. With that, you can stay safe. You cannot protect against everything, bad things still happen, but you sure can minimize them, and their affect, by paying attention, and doing the right thing. Read every accident report you can find, then ask youself "what am I always going to do to prevent an accident like that?".
Accidents never happen as a result of a single event, its a combination. Your job is to constantly be vigilent to prevent the multiple causes from overlaying at the same time, and allowing an accident to occur. Some call it the swiss cheese holes lining up - you know what I mean...
I frequently ask myself while flying: "is the very thing I'm doing right now, something which I could read about in an accident report later?". If so, I make darn sure those other factors (swiss cheese holes) are not going to line up, so I am reading about it! So far, so good...
Like life, you start in aviation with a full bag of luck, and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience, before you empty the bag of luck.
Go for it, but remember your responsibility to your family, the rest of earth bound population, and those of us with whom you share the sky, and resist the temptation to do foolish things in planes!
Pilot DAR