Danny. You're comparing chalk to cheese. You need to come up with some way of making the figures of road deaths to airshow deaths properly comparable. You will need to factor in criteria such as number of journeys or miles travelled for the road deaths to criteria such as number of air shows, number of people in the local environs etc for air shows. Once you have done that then maybe, just maybe you can make some sort of comparison. It would also be worth factoring in the serious (life changing) injuries for the road deaths too.
Until you have done some exercise along the lines of the above, then any comparison is utterly meaningless.
I'm not arguing either way on the over reaction question by the way.
S-D