Russians are the worst drivers in the world - with absolutely no regard for traffic regulations .
Its hard to see from the video but these cars are going WAY over the speed limit and probably losing it on tires that are way past worn.
In the "no regard for traffic regs" category, I vote for the Chinese. Once you get out of any of the major cities, traffic rules simply aren't followed or enforced. Some of the dumbest, most suicidal things I've seen occured in Mainland china. City buses running at night with no headlights/tailights. Changing a tire in one lane, putting the spare in the next and putting a tree branch in it to "alert" folks. Of course it was night and the lights on the truck were out. Or how about the road crews who dig open pits in the road to presumably fix something, but don't bother to cone it off. Over this 4-5 mile stretch, they had about 8 pits dug, half had a car in it. Red lights don't mean stop, they merely mean other people may be getting in your way. It's nuts.
"Russians are the worst drivers in the world - with absolutely no regard for traffic regulations . "
Yeah, I thought people here in Texas didn't know how to drive until I went to Moscow. Going in and out of town, every hundred yards there is a wreath of flowers of the road. On the rural roads, it's not much better where the edges of the pavement are broken up so everyone drives down the center, both directions.
These tunnel crashes are linked to an anti-icer sprayed over Moscow streets this winter. This thing makes every surface it touches slippery like hell. Moscow city council decided to cancel using tis stuff, due to high accident rate for both cars and pedestrians (especially in the Metro, where pedestriants slip on granite and marble floors). All that was widely discussed in local media.
However it does not fit your: "rusty Lada, worn tyres, half-drunken speeding drivers". I trust you have never been to Moscow, otherwise you would have known, that most drivers in the winter would change their tyres - the first day the snow falls you would see long queues at the tyre centers. And you possibly never been to France or Portugal, speaking of regard for traffic regulations.
I am reminded of my recent travels to Ukraine where traffic signals are "advisory" in nature --when they are working at all.