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.
I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

