”A few years ago a "bit of dog poo" killed a young girl who had picked up the contamination on a beach at Dawlish in Devon.”

In the year 2016/7, 48 children aged between 0-15 years were killed on the roads in the UK.

If you were to strive to acquire a reasonably well-developed sense of proportion, it would almost certainly help you to defeat your irrational phobia.