The logical approach to crossing the road is to acknowledge the danger and take appropriate caution. It is clearly potentially dangerous but within your control. If you have an ounce of sense and take precautions there is pretty much no risk whatsoever. I do it every day and have never once even had a close shave. Being scared of something I can control doesn't sound very logical to me.
It bears no relation whatsoever to flying which is totally outof your control once you step on the plane. You cannot take any precautions and if anything goes wrong you are probably going to die in an awful way.
See.... you read a silly, totally flawed statistic and you are scared of crossing the road. So much for logic
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
Pretty much every word of that is incorrect, I'm afraid. Had you added Dennis Bergkamp being better than Teddy Sheringham you might won an award of some kind for incorrectness.
I'm pretty sure that everyone killed crossing the road thought that they were completely in control, however being in control is a) a nebulous concept and b) inaccurate in this case. To see it this way is illogical. By removing yourself from the scenario and looking at it objectively and intelligently you should come to the conclusion that it is the statistical probability of being killed/harmed that is relevant.
And I would guess that dying crossing the road is considerably more likely to be unpleasant than dying in a plane crash. The latter is almost certainly a quick and painless process, although the lead up might make you sweat a bit, admittedly.