Road Rage
It starts with just a moment of tailgating, or maybe the guy in front of you cut you off or wouldn't let you into the fast lane. In some cases, it appears that incidents of road rage are caused by simple misunderstandings between drivers. A driver may make a momentary error of judgment but the perception of another driver is that he or she is driving aggressively. Then suddenly it turns into World War III on the highway. It matters little what causes it; a bad day at the office or a fight with the parents. All it takes is a sudden movement of someone else's wheels, and within seconds a normally mild mannered motorist is consumed with that red eyed anger that grabs more of us every day. Road Rage, something that has always simmered on the back burner of motoring America, is now going off like fireworks. Father, mother, son, daughter, they all have their own ways of getting mad. Some slam on the brakes, jump out of their cars, open the trunks and grab anything that they get their hands on. Others use baseball bats, knives, mace, pepper spray, fists, or some simply pull out a pistol and start firing away. Why are these drivers turning their anger and frustrations into road rage and what solutions can we find to
Impatient drivers can also be an instigator of road rage. "A road-raging madman pulled up behind Gary Mckay's truck in the passing lane on Interstate 55 several years ago. Mckay was passing a slow moving tractor-trailer at the time and said that he saw, "nothing but the truck grille in his mirror. I could see his fist and he was cussing and obviously mouthing off." Mckay also recalled, "I probably should have sped up a little faster to get out of his way but instead I kept on easing around the truck and then signaled to get over." After passing Mckay, the madman made an obscene gesture, pulled in front of Mckay's truck and slammed on the brakes, three times. Finally the guy sped off," (Leiser, Post-Dispatch). It's this type of behavior that makes road rage a life or death situation. If Mckay would not have been paying close attention when the lunatic pulled around him and slammed on his brakes this situation could have turned fatal. women to take the next step from aggressive driving to road rage, actually committing acts of violence from behind the wheel," (Ledford, New York Times). "You feel a whole lot safer yelling at someone when you are surrounded by 2,000 pounds of metal, says Athelia Gunderson of Tacoma, Washington, who admits to an occasional outburst during her daily 30-minute commute to her job at a roofing supply company," (Bowles and Overberg, USA TODAY). All of the above factors ma
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