Henson took a pistol from her glove compartment, opened her window and killed Foster instantly with a shot to the face. Traffic congestion is getting worse. More and more people are spending more and more time on the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration here says they have no hard statistics for aggressive driving and road rage incidents, but anecdotally they believe it is getting worse. The working definition is two or more unlawful driving acts in congested traffic.
Aggressive drivers are more likely to engage in high-risk and discourteous driving behavior.
DoD is among the entities looking into aggressive driving, because car accidents account for about 65 percent of the fatalities in the armed services, according to Phyllis Moon, an Army safety and occupational health manager based in Atlanta. Moon said activities to curb aggressive driving today are analogous to efforts to curb drunken driving in the 1980s. People are just beginning to realize that aggressive driving is a problem. People are just now developing programs to combat it. The programs concentrate on recognizing aggressive driving and what to do to combat it.