Why do people drive like maniacs in Eastern Europe?

Eastern Europe is a peculiar place. The humans seem to exhibit the primary signs of intelligence when it comes to sciences but miserably fail at basic understanding of economics and market order.

However the issue here their driving habits. An unexpected family circumstances made it necessary for me to visit Bulgaria and I was subjected to the most horrifying experience of having to travel by car. People are simply insane on the roads. The road system itself sucks donkey ass and the inventory of available vehicles sucks double so you have the combination of bad cars driven on bad roads by people who should be in straight jacket. Add the complete lack of decent trauma health care (you know, in case you get into a wreck and you hope to survive) and you are basically a moving target trying to stay alive. But why is that? What compels these seemingly intelligent beings to ignore the above-normal risks of even being on the roads and add a personal touch of increasing those risks by practicing suicidal driving culture?

Its the male nature I claim! Every one of us is programmed to compete and seek objectives which are difficult to achieve because we all know that the easy things to get are usually less valuable than the difficult ones. The problem with Bulgarian man is that they are perpetually repressed in every aspect of their lives except when they hit the road. Getting behind the wheel is the only way to express free will. One which is disjointed from their screaming wives; governmental oversight and control; purchasing power parity deficiency and cultural obligations to siblings.

Run those red lights you mighty beasts of testosterone. If it wasn't for the highways you might as well loose those testicles!