The experimental program comes in advance of next year's session of the Legislature, which will consider proposed laws against aggressive driving. The congested highways of south Florida provide the perfect pressure cooker for the experiment. The number of vehicles on the road in metro Miami has nearly doubled in the past decade, to 2.4 million. Driving on Interstate 95 and other major arteries is a nightmare. Among other things, impatient motorists weave from lane to lane and flash their brights inches from the bumpers of the unwary.
Troopers say at least one-third of nonfatal crashes are linked to aggressive driving.
Says the highway patrol's Maj. If your exit's coming up, and you're not in the right lane, you may as well kiss it goodbye, because no one is letting you in. During almost any week, aggressive driving takes a deadly local toll. Last Monday, five Miami teens took a stolen car on a high-speed joy ride. One of the teens was killed when the car crashed into a vanload of German tourists, and sent several of the Germans to the hospital.