Aggressive Driving Escalates to Road Rage

A case of road rage rarely happens out of the blue. Typically, there are escalating behaviors that will lead to a full-on case of injury-causing or deadly road rage. Since most people deal with the stress of rush hour traffic in a healthy and calm manner, it may not seem possible for somebody to get mad enough to crash a car or harass another driver. Unfortunately, it happens more often than you might think, and a variety of aggressive behaviors behind the wheel can escalate to road rage. Listed below are just a few examples of aggressive driving habits.

Examples of Aggressive Driving

Speeding and Tailgating

Speeding and tailgating may not seem scary by themselves, but in the greater context of roadway safety, they can be huge red flags. If you’re being aggressively tailgated or a car is racing around the roadway, those are clearly aggressive driving behaviors. Safe and relaxed drivers don’t get right up on other driver’s tails. It’s dangerous. Safe drivers know that they will need enough room to stop in the event of an emergency. An aggressive or road raging driver will not care about the consequences of following too closely. It may even be a deliberate effort to harass another driver. What’s more nerve wracking than having an aggressive driver ride your tail down the interstate?

The Recklessness of Road Rage

Road rage isn’t just about being mad behind the wheel. It’s about taking deliberately unsafe and dangerous risks behind the wheel. It’s about putting yourself and other motorists in harm’s way. Speeding, tailgating, swerving in and out of lanes and sudden braking can all cause injury-causing and even deadly wrecks. These behaviors don’t happen in a vacuum of safe driving habits. They happen in the real world, where dangerous driving gets innocent people hurt and killed.