NIP arrived. 1010

The "danger" is the risk of being harmed. If there is more risk it is more dangerous. Whatever I do, there is always the risk of an idiot going too fast round a blind bend, so it is always "dangerous" to some extent.

I simply believe the road can contribute to how much risk there is, regardless of how much effort I put in.

Yes. But that has nothing to do with whether the road is dangerous.

Yes. It's just safer than most other roads (which implies that lots of roads are dangerous).

Once there is a lorry crashing through the barrier it's too late to be talking about "dangerous", it's probably "deadly". Danger is all about the probability of something harmful happening, not the actual harmful thing happening.

Or drive inappropriately and survive.

I can see your point. The road will never kill me (on its own) so how is it dangerous?

OTOH, I can't know anything about the other drivers on the road I can only know the quality of the road. The road is always there and is always the same.

Well, a thesaurus I found on-line lists these words with dangerous:

alarming, bad, chance, chancy, critical, dangersome, desultory, explosive, fell, fraught with danger, grievous, hairy, haphazard, harmful, hazardous, hit-or-miss, iffy, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, jeopardous, major, menacing, parlous, periculous, perilous, precarious, provisional, random, rickety, risky, serious, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery, temporary, tentative, threatening, ticklish, treacherous, ugly, uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, wicked

If something which is "slippery" can be "dangerous" I'd argue that inanimate objects can easily be dangerous.

-- David Taylor