Road rage

Frumkin and Solomon, 1997). The proposal was initially turned down by the US Environmental Protection Agency, but has since been approved on appeal (Davis, 1999). With the recent recognition of the serious condition known as road rage, we can do very well without a fuel petrol supplement that might raise brain Mn levels leading to even more aggressive behaviour. 

Now let s intensify that scenario. The trip home from work is far from an idyllic ride through a beautiful valley filled with flowering shrubs and birds in the sky. No, it s bumper-to-bumper traffic with white knuckles on the steering wheel. After thirty, forty, or more minutes of near collisions and road rage, our worker finally comes home. 

To explain a new or unusual term or phrase found in popular culture, slang, dialect, or within a particular geographic area ( hip hop, road rage, urban legends, lagniappe, Hoosiers )... 

Uses The ultimate road rage machine/babe magnet oil-slick sprayer, smoke screens, tire-slashing blades, machine guns, and an ejector seat for when your blind date turns out to be a bore. 

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Road rage from driving large vehicles on congested roadways. 

Driving 3 second rule Not using my turn signal Getting upset at other drivers (road rage)... 

Figure 9-3. Aggressive driving is not a new phenomenon. (Painting by Claude Guilot, 1707). Measures of aggressive driving and road rage...

Figure 9-10. The factor loadings (correlations between the communal factor and the individual variables) of general aggression and driving aggression (labeled as road rage ) based on three different questionnaires Driving Anger Seale (das). Driver Vengeance Questionnaire (dvq), and Driver Behavior Inventory (dbi), and among subscales of these questioimaires. (from Van Rooy et aL, 2006).

James, L. and N. Nahl (2000). Road Rage and Aggressive Driving. Prometheus, Amherst, NY. 

Smart, R. G., G. Stoduto, R. E. Mann and E. M. Adlaf (2004). Road rage experience and behavior Vehicle, exposure, and driver factors. Traffic Inj. Prev. 5, 343- 348. 

Williams and B. Anderson (2002). An exploratory study of the relationship between road rage and crash experience in a representative sample of US drivers. Accid. Anal Prev., 34,271-278. 

Yu, J., P. C. Evans and L. Perfetti (2004). Road aggression among drinking drivers Alcohol and non-alcohol effects on aggressive driving and road rage. J. Criminal Justice, 32, 421-430. 

Perhaps not surprisingly, people with alcohol abuse history, are also likely to have more violations and collisions than people without them. Macdonald et al (2004) confirmed this when they compared the violations and crash records of drivers who voluntarily sought help for alcohol problems from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada, with the violations and crash records of a non-patient sample of drivers matched in age and gender. The patients had approximately 30 percent more moving traffic violations and 100 percent more collisions than the control sample. Similarly people involved in severe road rage incidents often have alcohol problems (Butters et al, 2005). 

Provide seminars on topics relevant to safe driving, such as when to use flashers how to handle road rage the importance of keeping one s eyes on the road ahead and scanning it, with no manual dialing or texting and no use of in-vehicle devices that draw attention away from the road how to use maps and no use of radar detectors. 

Train the hiring manager about issues associated with hiring high-risk drivers, such as the impact of drivers with road rage on insurance rates and how to identify these drivers. 

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