I wouldn't like to speculate on just how few options the pilot had left, but a road looks very attractive from the air. Unfortunately, roads are littered with powerlines, road advisory signs, plus moving vehicles... and are rarely of adequate width to allow for the requirements of an aircraft in the landing phase.
A friend landed his Piper on a country highway after a fuel supply failure, and thought he'd done exceptionally well with a dead stick landing on a road, as he braked to a halt.
However, he never saw the large advisory roadside sign, with its sizeable pipe supports, that took the wing off, just as he thought he was O.K.!