Most Dangerous Mode of Transportation Injury Facts® compares four modes of transportation: scheduled airlines, railroad passenger trains (including Amtrak and commutation), buses, and passenger automobiles (excluding vans and pickup trucks). In general, buses, trains, and airlines have much lower death rates than automobiles when the risk is expressed as passenger deaths per passenger mile of travel. (Automobile drivers are considered passengers but operators and crew of planes, trains, and buses are not.) In 2000, the passenger death rate in automobiles was 0.80 per 100 million passenger-miles. The rates for buses, trains, and airlines were 0.05, 0.03, and 0.02, respectively.
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Stacks up as 40 times safer to fly scheduled airlines than to drive the same distance! And since one is about 100 times more likely to be injured rather than killed in an auto accident, one is probably at least 1,000 - 2000 times more likely to be injured or killed driving the same distance as flying on scheduled airlines!
Or, as you suggest, one can stay home...(but keep one's driving to a minimum!)