Impatient Drivers Cause Problems High schoolers, by and large being impatient, surly, speed-crazed demons on the road, are prone to road rage. The more serious cases of road rage are those that involve two motorists stopping to instigate a confrontation. In the United States, unverified figures of up to 1,200 road rage-related deaths a year have been reported. Aggressive drivers in recent years have been Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and several other religions. Professional boxer Mike Tyson is serving a one-year jail sentence because of a heated dispute that involved fisticuffs following an accident that his wife was involved in.
Experts say roadway overcrowding is a major cause.
Another major cause is the stress level of today's drivers. In the hustle-bustle world of the nineties, an era in which volatile talk radio and violent imagery fill the radio waves and frenetic drivers are desperate to get to that second job on time, nerves get frayed. At that point, experts believe, a small incident may trigger a major explosion. I tried to be polite about it but the guy tailgated me like nobody's business, put his high beams on and followed me for something like three miles. Finally, when I stopped, the guy rolled down his window and shouted expletives at me for two minutes before driving off.