I ran some of the numbers in a post back in 2003 after the shuttle Columbia blew apart, and being an astronaut is indeed a very dangerous job, despite all the thousands of hours of training and billions of dollars spent trying to keep it safe:

http://www.penmachine.com/2003/02/damn-lies-statistics-and-fatality.html

The problem is that the sample size is very small, so there are wild variations year to year. On average, being U.S. President is very dangerous too (given the number of assassinations over the decades). So is being a professional high-altitude mountain climber.

Raymond also has a point about the military, but I think it's usually excluded from these lists because being in a job where people are TRYING to kill you (as opposed to accidentally dying) is a whole different kettle of fish. I also don't think current U.S. military mortality rates match those of astronauts (or presidents). However, some reports claim that 63% (!) of World War II German U-boat crew members perished on the job, and the stats weren't much better for Allied bomber crews either (about 30%). No current job that I know of comes close to that.

And the people needing to go the other way would drive where?

I find it hard to even call that a road. Never mind that the photos don't even show what it's like in the fog or a driving rainstorm.