Exactly! Treat every intersection as uncontrolled, including intersections where an AMET agent is directing traffic. I don't understand the mentality of flying through blind corners with your horn blaring. It's selfish in so many ways. People who do it are disturbing the neighborhoods and endangering pedestrians and other drivers. One of the video shows Gomez and one of the major east/west avenues. All of those intersections are controlled by traffic signals but it's as if the traffic signals don't exist unless there are cars stopped at the intersection. Drivers just fly through as if they are on an open stretch of the Bonneville flats. I don't have a lot of patience for the idea that it takes scary videos to understand the risks. I subscribe to the theory that if you treat the public like imbeciles the public will carry on acting like imbeciles. Vehicle confiscations, handcuffs, and work details collecting trash would turn the tide.
It is a fact of life driving in Santo Domingo that if the intersection does not have lights and even if there are stop signs and markings, that you pass with extreme caution.
I used to live close to the intersection of Helios and Defillio which had stop signs and markings at all 4 junctions. Had no effect and the number of new and expensive cars involved in accidents at that junction was quite remarkable. There as a tendency for vehicles rushing up and down Defillio from 27th to Anacaona to ignore the other traffic. For a pedestrian to cross was a 'hail mary'.
It will take a long time to correct the wrongs, if at all, through a series of measures. Accept there is not the necessary numbers and quality of traffic policing around.
Just think back in out home countries we have a whole raft of traffic policing in place to include fixed speed cameras, intersection cameras, average speed cameras, traffic wardens and wheel clamps, proper signage and road markings, police with equipped vehicles, just to name a few.
The fact that some expats are finding the incidents remarkable tells me that they haven't driven much in the country and to that end the videos are useful.
Just earlier I was driving along Independencia towards Nunez and mentally I was clocking up all the infractions occurring around me and concentrating on my defensive driving mode. No point getting hot under the collar rather pray and hope for a better future.