Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Data shows road rage episodes have surged by over 400% in recent years. getty Sadly, road range incidents have become all too common in our short-tempered society. In recent days alone, a motorist in Valley View, OH was killed in an act of road rage; in Indianapolis, IN an armed man angrily approached a pickup truck with gun in hand, only to be shot by the subject of his discontent; a physical altercation between two drivers in Billings, MT resulted in the death on a 55-year-old man.
Experts advise motorists to stay cool and collected behind the wheel, especially with the additional traffic hitting the roads for the upcoming Labor Day weekend. That’s because reported road rage episodes have surged by over 400% in recent years according to the anti-gun violence website The Trace , with ticked-off drivers being responsible for 3,095 shootings and 777 deaths between 2014 and 2023. A separate report commissioned by the dash cam company Nextbase found that 79% of all U.
S. drivers have experienced aggressive driving or outright road rage, with a third of them being subjected to multiple roadway skirmishes each month. "As Labor Day approaches—a time when millions of Americans take to the roads for holiday travel—road rage becomes an even more pressing issue," says Bryn Brooker, Head of Road Safety for Nextbase.
"Increased traffic, longer drives, and heightened stress levels make drivers more susceptible to aggression and inn.