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Road rage


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    • Freeway violence
    • Highway violence
    • Rage, Road
    • Traffic violence
    • Violence in traffic
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    • found: Yuill, G. Road rage, c1996(Road rage is described as a violent reaction completely out of proportion with the incident; text cites examples of people being attacked, run over, and killed after minor road traffic incidents)
    • found: Road traffic law bulletin, May 1994(Road rage can be defined in psychological terms as unchecked behaviour, which is not normally in the repertoire of the individual, designed to cause harm to another road user)
    • found: Nursing standard, 1995:v. 9, no. 42, p. 21 (Road rage was first described in the early 1980s when 4 people were killed and several injured in a spate of armed incidents over a two month period on the Los Angeles freeways)
    • found: Professional engineering, 1995:v. 8, no. 12, p. 10.
    • found: Washington Post, Oct. 16, 1977:p. A14 (freeway violence) April 23, 1994, p. B1 (violence ... on the highways) April 18, 1996, p. A17 (road rage)
    • found: Washington Post Magazine, Feb. 4, 1979(highway hostility; traffic violence)
    • found: CBS News, Nov. 7, 1996(road rage)
    • found: Journal (VA) Nov. 29, 1996:p. B4 (Incidents of what the [American Automobile Association's Foundation for Traffic Safety] calls 'road rage' were up close to seven percent since 1990)
    • found: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website, Apr. 19, 2007:traffic safety (NHTSA, after discussions with law enforcement and the judiciary, defines aggressive driving as occurring when "an individual commits a combination of moving traffic offenses so as to endanger other persons or property.") injury prevention (Road rage differs from aggressive driving. It is a criminal offense and is "an assault with a motor vehicle or other dangerous weapon by the operator or passenger(s) of one motor vehicle on the operator or passenger(s) of another motor vehicle or is caused by an incident that occurred on a roadway.")
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    • 1996-10-11: new
    • 2007-06-27: revised
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