Usually
road rage is triggered by a specific event like frequent traffic jams, over crowded roads, driving the wrong way, taking illegal turns, defective traffic signals, sudden restrictions because of VIP movement, bottlenecks due to illegal parking of vehicles by roadside, poor conditions of roads, potholes, oversized road humps, ubiquitous beggars/hawkers at traffic signals.
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road rageConventional thinking on
road rage indicates that the vast majority of those who deliberately act in an aggressive manner on the roads vent due to the careless driving of others.
Mark Slater, | | left, has been convicted of murdering Trevor Allen, right, in a
road rage attack CHESHIRE CONSTABULARY
Despite the cases of
road rage going up in the last three years, the Delhi Police still do not keep separate accounts of these incidents.
Table:
Road rage behaviors, experiences and involvement in accidents by vehicle type.
"
Road rage," says Nazanin Sadegh Pour, psychologist at the Human Relations Institute in Dubai.
Over a fifth (21%) of
road rage sufferers have argued with another motorist because of
road rage while 36% admitted it makes them drive more aggressively.
The new system, which will be limited to highways with no oncoming traffic and no pedestrians, will come as good news to those commuters who have been victims of or are susceptible to
road rage on Omani roads due to the stressful traffic situations.
18 -- Swami Vivekanand College of Science and Technology Bhopal and PR Solution organized a "YUVA TALK SHOW" programme on Role of Youth in Managing
Road Rage Vis - a - Vis Controlling death due to road accidents.
Scotland came out worst for
road rage overall with 104,000 out of 2.6 million drivers (4%) caught up in motoring incidents.
ROAD rage is soaring with hundreds of thousands of motorists saying they've been deliberately RAMMED.