To find out, I took the World Health Organisation s 2013 data on road deaths per 100,000 people in different countries (which seems a sensible proxy for quality of driving), and compared it to the scores given by the World Justice Project on Rule of Law in 2015. This latter score is generated by surveying 100,000 people and 2,400 experts on 44 indicators like the openness of government, corruption, fundamental rights and justice.
Pairing up the 94 countries that are included in both datasets, it reveals that amazingly there appears to be a correlation between the two. For the stats nerds out there, that s a Pearson correlation coefficient of -0.68.
Plausibleish.