Traffic rules jumping is crazy and immoral

• Traffic violation has little to do with being in a hurry. 
• It’s about the opportunity to leave the fellow traveler behind.
• While traffic rules can be altered arbitrarily, moral and juridical rules which are constitutive and cannot be arbitrarily replaced by another set. 
• Traffic restrictions are regulated. While morality underpins these rules, it also frames them.
• How we drive is how we are driven. 
• Jumping lights is a feature of daily life. It is dangerous and very often fatal for either the violator or the innocent passerby or both.
• If everyone crashed lights, there would be chaos. 
• With increasing lying, the difference between truth and falsity is not abandoned, but actually sharpened. We do not abandon truth, but look more carefully for it.
• Non-functioning traffic lights tempts people to take unilateral decisions when co-operative action is most called for. This is legitimising jumping lights when they do work.
• Crashing lights also alters our character. We infect each other until the malady becomes an epidemic. 
• We think little of rule-breaking, especially when no one is looking. Motorbikes and cars line up obediently at crossings only when policeman is present. The violator is aware of what he is doing. 
• For most people, practical reason is a means to achieve immediate goals, whatever they may be. In the case of the signal light crasher, the goal is simply getting across quickly.
• Slowing down the speedster includes strategies like timers on lights which show the duration of the impending wait.
• At traffic lights you only have to get the first few vehicles to stop to stop the others per force.
• The assumption that light-crashers are in a hurry is questionable. It is not the real reason for jumping lights (fallacy of pro causa non causa). 
• Those who jump lights appear to be in a hurry, but are in no more haste than everybody else, and not more likely to get anywhere faster. 
• The reason why people jump lights is that they don't know the reason themselves.
• It is not the hurry to get across that best describes such misconduct, but the opportunity to leave fellow travellers behind.
• This is what lures the criminal to make his dash. His motive is simply to get the better of others. It’s a kind of cheating, not because it makes them richer, but because it enables them to steal a march over otheers. 
• This way of accomplishing something is potentially dangerous. It is this that often makes the rider throw caution to the winds to seize the day.
• No arguments will be effective against such behaviour. 
• Suicidal behaviour is neither the privilege of fanatics nor fundamentalists. 
• This is one area where no one could rightly complain and the police seem least active. This makes one wonder if law and order are really a priority.

Dando damyatam asmi ... Lord Krishna

Violating traffic rules is an act of craziness that exposes all around fatalities which has nothing to gain and everything to lose. This fundamentally arises out of superiority complex. Stringent penalties will surely act as deterrent. But the chances of getting caught and/or fined must be 80% or more. More than all these, ethical education during childhood years will be helpful. Adhering to traffic rules even when no one is around will help retaining safety habits and minimises risk of accidents.