The reason people read the highway code is because it's describing what the law is. It's meaningless to treat the highway code and the law separately. I believ

The reason people read the highway code is because it's describing what the law is. It's meaningless to treat the highway code and the law separately. I believe that the vast majority of people behave in traffic, not out of reverence to a book, but because they want to arrive at their destination safely and without having hurt other people. Wrt. other intersections (not sure why that word needs scare quotes?), I live right next to a fairly busy one, and can see three others from my balcony, and I have so far failed to see any carnage.