Manifestation
The following are common manifestations of road rage:
- Generally aggressive driving, including sudden acceleration, braking, and close tailgating.
- Cutting others off in a lane, or deliberately preventing someone from merging.
- Chasing other motorists
- Flashing lights and/or sounding the horn excessively.
- Yelling or exhibiting disruptive behavior at roadside establishments.
- Driving at high speeds in the median of a highway to terrify drivers in both lanes.
- Rude gestures (such as "the finger").
- Shouting verbal abuses or threats.
- Intentionally causing a collision between vehicles.
- Hitting other vehicles.
- Assaulting other motorists, their passengers, cyclists or pedestrians
- Exiting the car to attempt to start confrontations, including striking other vehicles with an object.
- Threatening to use or using a firearm or other deadly weapon.
- Throwing projectiles from a moving vehicle with the intent of damaging other vehicles.
In the U.S., more than 300 cases of road rage annually have ended with serious injuries or even fatalities – 1200 incidents per year, according to the AAA Foundation study, and rising yearly throughout the six years of the study that examined police records nationally.
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