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Road rage or road violence is the common name for deliberately dangerous and/or violent behaviour under the influence of heightened anger by a motor vehicle operator that affects the safety of one or more other operators or bystanders. Road rage is often an egocentric reaction of anger to personal frustration with any road condition or other motorist behaviour which thwarts the personal desires of the road rager. The reasons for the apparent rise in road rage since the 1970s are as yet unclear. However, a 1989 study found a correlation between a rise in traffic congestion and a rise in car-to-car shootings in Los Angeles.[1] Violence is a general term to describe actions, usually deliberate, that cause or intend to cause injury to people, animals, or non-living objects. ...
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Manifestation
Road rage has manifested itself in actions such as: - speeding and aggressive acceleration
- tailgating
- cutting others off
- weaving in and out of traffic
- forming a "convoy" with vehicles driven by fellow ragers to block access to a traffic lane
- sounding the vehicle's horn or flashing lights excessively
- unprovoked rude gestures
- shouted verbal abuse, including threats
- deliberately hitting another person, vehicle or object with their own vehicle
- hitting the person or vehicle with a weapon which is not his vehicle e.g. using a tire iron, golf club, or baseball bat
- threatening with or using a firearm or other weapon on the target
- engagement in pursuit of another vehicle for retaliation or revenge of a perceived slight
- triggering or exaggeration of traffic waves
Extreme cases of road rage have ended with serious injuries or even fatalities.[citation needed] A speed limit is the maximum speed allowed by law by vehicles on a road. ...
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Revenge or vengeance consists of retaliation against a person or group in response to perceived wrongdoing. ...
Traffic waves, also called stop waves or traffic shocks, are travelling disturbances in the distribution of cars on a highway. ...
Prevention and avoidance To avoid becoming victims of road rage, drivers are encouraged to lock all doors when driving in thick traffic at slow speeds, to be alert for road ragers, and to avoid any temptation to retaliate no matter how justifiably provoked it may seem. Accidental or intentional damage to property or injury of others due to road rage often occur in such traffic situations.
Penalties Road rage is a relatively serious act: it may be seen as an endangerment of public safety. It is, however, not possible to judge intent by external observation, so "road ragers" who are stopped by police may be charged only with relatively minor offences such as careless or reckless driving. This is an article about the modern meaning of the term public safety. ...
It is, however, likely that those causing serious injury or death during "road rage" incidents will suffer more serious penalties than those applicable to similar outcomes from simple negligence.
Road rage on the Web Various websites cater to road ragers by letting them report their stories including details of the so-called offenders. Thus there are those who believe that road rage is covertly facilitated, if not fostered, by society at large through a lack of serious police, court and general social response to its increasing levels of occurrence and severity of outcome. One site, Monkey Meter, [1] reports the expected level of road rage for the day based on the theory that some days are worse than others.
See also Kenneth Noye is a English criminal who was convicted of the 1996 road rage murder of Stephen Cameron. ...
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External links - roadragers.com
- Extensive data regarding road rage and driving behavior can be found at the (U.S.) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website.
References - ^ E. Chukwudi Onwuachi-Saunders, Deborah Lambert, Polly Marchbanks, Patrick O'Carroll & James Mercy, "Firearm-Related Assaults on Los Angeles Roadways," Journal of the American Medical Association 262, no. 16 (27 October 1989): 2262-2264.
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