He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.