Road Rage

Road rage, what is road rage? Road rage or aggressive driving is when a driver is in danger of being injured or killed over a traffic dispute by another driver (Vest 24). People will show how anger and frustrated they are by giving people the finger, slowing down in front of people, cutting off other drivers, many other things, and who knows what they'll do if they pull off the road to continue a fight with another driver. When some people drive it's like they have a second personality, they'll do anything to get where they're going the fastest if that means killing someone some will. Aggressive drivers have killed 12,610 and injured more than 20 million people (Vest 25). Road rage is a big problem all over the world and some how needs to be stopped.

Aggressive drivers cause many crashes, hurt many people, and cause a big problem. Almost 90% of British drivers have been threatened or abused by other drivers even though British drivers are called the safest in Europe. About 21% of Britain drivers who drive for a living have been run off the road. A study in Australia shows that about half of the traffic accidents are caused by road rage (Vest 29). Two-thirds of 1996's auto deaths involved aggressive driving (NHTSA, Glazer 651). About two hundred and fifty thousand people were injured in traffic since 1990 (AAA, Vest 25).

Since 1990 about thirteen thousand people were injured or killed by aggressive driving, but these are the only ones in police reports and newspaper clippings. The real numbers of these crimes are probably very much higher (AAA, Levine 92). More than twenty million people were injured in traffic and twelve thousand six hundred and ten were related to aggressive driving (AAA, Vest 25). For all the crashes in any one year 6-7% of the nation's drivers are responsible for them (Patrica Waller, Glazer 65). In the first half of the decade road rage is up 51% (AAA, Ferguson 64).

One of the reasons it is going up is because more people driving...