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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.
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 ...
Since its founding in 1947, the AAA Foundation has sponsored over 200 projects related to highway safety, covering topics such as distracted, impaired, and drowsy driving; road rage; graduated driver licensing; driver's education and training; and pedestrian safety. The AAA Foundation research agenda is centered on four priority areas: Driver ...
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 ...
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 ...
Failure to adhere to this behavior can cause an increased risk of legal consequences, road collisions, trauma and road rage. [ 7 ] Driving etiquette can extend beyond in-vehicle actions: [ 8 ] When a courteous driver scrapes the fender or inflicts minor damage to a parked car without its owner present, they leave a note giving their name ...
Traffic engineers refer to three "E's" when discussing traffic calming: engineering, (community) education, and (police) enforcement.Because neighborhood traffic management studies have shown that residents often contribute to the perceived speeding problem within their neighborhoods, instructions on traffic calming (for example in Hass-Klau et al., 1992 [4]) stress that the most effective ...