It's not just the Continent or Oz. We have more than our share in the US as well.
Of course, over here they'll give anyone 16 years of age who can drive around the block without crashing into something a license. I see plenty of blithering idiots out on the roadways...and my town isn't that large (250,000).
Try driving in a major US city, like Houston. On a GOOD day it would take me an hour to drive to work...on a BAD day..two to two and a half. Plenty of "left lane bandits" as we call them...people who drift along under the speed limit in the left lane and won't move over (we drive on the opposite side as the UK and Oz). Plenty who wait until the last minute and dash across 3 lanes of highway to make their exit, too.
I was driving in Chicago about 20 years ago and almost got run off the road by the same car three times on the highway.
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