Over four miles, the two drivers attacked each other, weaving in and out of traffic until both took the same freeway exit ramp. Foster got out of her car and ran toward Henson shouting. Henson took a pistol from her glove compartment, opened her window and killed Foster instantly with a shot to the face. 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, because as traffic congestion gets worse, more and more people are spending more and more time on the road. 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.
The Defense Department 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. Most programs concentrate on recognizing aggressive driving and what to do to combat it.