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Two drivers emerging from their cars to express anger at a road situation. Road rage is aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by people driving a vehicle. These behaviors include rude and verbal insults, yelling, physical threats or dangerous driving methods targeted at other drivers, pedestrians or cyclists in an effort to intimidate or release frustration.
As demand approaches the capacity of a road (or of the intersections along the road), extreme traffic congestion sets in. When vehicles are fully stopped for periods of time, this is known as a traffic jam [3] [4] or (informally) a traffic snarl-up [5] [6] or a tailback. [7] Drivers can become frustrated and engage in road rage. Drivers and ...
In its most uncivil form, it can be a case of road rage or intimidation. An example would be where the tailgating driver (the driver in the following vehicle) threatens damage to the leading vehicle and its occupants by driving aggressively – perhaps also with use of headlights and horn – to coerce the leading vehicle's driver into getting ...
The state's road-rage score stands at 30.73, with 0.39 road-rage incidents involving a gun per 100,000 residents, 6.68 fatal accidents, and 2.26 aggressive or careless-driving violations per 100,000.
Road rage incidents with a gun per 100K residents: 1.10 Accidents with fatalities due to aggressive and/or careless driving per 100K residents: 5.24 Percentage of accidents due to aggressive and ...
Road rage is another example of displaced aggression; the American Psychological Association states that factors such as crowded roads can boost anger behind the wheel causing displaced anger. [20] Traffic on the roads can cause people to take their aggression out on uninvolved drivers.
Denise Richards will never forget being involved in an apparent road rage shooting incident. Long before facing her fears and past traumas on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, the former ...
This is a list of vehicle-ramming attacks.A vehicle-ramming attack is an assault in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a vehicle into a building, multiple people, or another vehicle.