alasta:

 

Last week a friend of mine almost got taken out by a guy who completely ignored a give way sign and went straight through the intersection at 50km/h without even looking. 

 

With some of the more extreme behaviours that people are observing you'd have to assume it's more than just "bad driving". There must be other factors such as drugs, or some other cognitive impairment. 

 

drugs is a big one. especially with what i would call hyper fixation with meth use.

the other is being exhausted. they are literally driving half asleep. happens a lot when people are stressed or busy trying to keep up with life. you often see it when something happens on the road, they do nothing, then they panic. very easy to not see signs and go straight through intersections.