It starts with just a moment of tailgating, or maybe the guy in front cut you off or wouldn’t let you into the fast lane. Then it becomes a war on the freeway. It doesn’t matter what causes it – bad day at the office, fighting with friends or family, credit cards maxed out. All it takes is a jerk of someone else’s wheels and within seconds, a normal commuter is taken over by a power of anger that is so strong, it affects more than sixty percent of drivers each year. Road rage, something that has always been on the highways of America, is now the strongest yet. The number of serious incidents of road rage has risen more than fifty-one percent since 1990. (3)More than ten thousand examples of road rage have been documented nationwide over the past six years which are only a small part of what is really going on. On the west coast, a good-natured person stops to help a stranded motorist, then tries to get back onto the freeway in front of a slow-moving truck. The truck driver won’t let him in, and within seconds, the nice person has gone bad, pounding on the truck hood, pulling a knife and killing the driver. In Los Angeles, actor Jack Nicholson, jumps out of his car and smashes in a cars’ windshield with a golf club just because the car had cut him off. Outside Washington D.C., two angry drivers chasing each other, at more than eighty miles an hour, crash into commuter traffic, leaving three people, other then themselves, dead. Like other violence in America, it’s not just the numbers, but the severity of road rage that is rising. People used to scream at each other, now they shoot at each other or run them over with their cars. It’s a major contagious disease.(3)Road Rage has become so serious that big companies, afraid of losing one of their best workers or going through a major lawsuit if one of their drivers loses it on the freeway and kills someone, are sending their employees to co...
