Traveling is unsafe. This is why standard emergency advice is to STAY PUT. Do not evacuate unless you are in immediate danger of death. In a real emergency, more people will die in an evacuation attempt than from the actual emergency.

When you're not in a state of emergency or natural disaster area, travel is still unsafe. But you have less opportunity to do things like call off work on account of "I might get hit by a car on my way to work". And the unsafe is relative. Very few people are involved in a fatal accident at home, to the point where it's not worth worrying about. Accidents on the road are much more common (so chances are you know someone who was in a serious accident), but fatalities are still unusual. Betting that you're today's fatality is the wrong way to bet.