Bad Driving

There are several types of driving offences, the main ones being legally defined as "careless driving", "inconsiderate driving" and "dangerous driving". Careless driving is also known as driving without due care or attention, examples of this being reading a map, smoking or eating whilst driving. Inconsiderate driving entails actions which inconvenience others, such as tailgating. Dangerous driving encompasses speeding, driving under the influence, deliberately ignoring road signs or markings, going the wrong way round a roundabout etc.

For me, it isn't the principle of breaking driving laws that bothers me, it's when people drive so dangerously that it puts other people at risk. No driver is perfect and I'm sure everyone stretches the rules from time to time (such as going faster than the speed limit, getting briefly distracted etc), but there's stretching the limits and then there's being selfish by doing something that will quite probably end up hurting someone else, such as driving when drunk or speeding excessively to show off: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260082/Wedding-guest-Christopher-Badgery-kills-vicar-injures-bridesmaid-showing-sports-car.html

However, there are many reasons why people do commit driving offences other than to show off. Some might find speeding exciting and others may feel good about rebelling against the law. It may simply be for convenience issues that speeding occurs or someone may end up drink driving if they have gone out and got separated from their designated driver (or didn't arrange to have one).

Info and statistics on dangerous driving: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5341720.stm

Some mugshots of famous bad drivers: (l-r) Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton, Chris Tucker