Eagles Over the Kennebec

I would certainly agree about reckless, and so would British law. The offense of "reckless driving" is that of "driving without due care and attention", in other words not reckoning. Whether other people consider it reckless is anothe matter, since they don't have the information they aren't qualified to judge -- jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane looks reckless, but skydivers do a lot of preparation and consideration before doing it.