Road rage, reckless driving affects drivers all over U.S.

By Lauren Shortnacy
lshortnacy@campcounty

Dec. 31, a call was made to the Camp County Sheriff’s Department reporting a case of road rage. The complaint advised officials that 35 to 40 minutes ago, he was driving East bound on Highway 11W and he came across a car that had their bright lights on.
The complaint said he turned his bright lights on to inform the driver that they in fact had their bright lights on, that’s when the rage came about. The complaint said the vehicle turned around and started chasing the complaint and blowing their horn at him. The complaint did not have his cell phone, in order to call the police at that time, but the other car then proceeded to pull up next to the complaint and try and run him off the road.
The complaint has a hand gun license, so he then put a laser beam on the other driver, hit his brakes and did a U turn in order to get away from the reckless driver. The other driver was said to be driving an older model, dark colored car.
According to SafeMotorist.com, road rage by definition from the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration is when a driver “commits moving traffic offenses as to endanger other persons or property.
It is an assault with a motor vehicle or other dangerous weapons on either the driver or passenger against the other driver or passenger.
The term originated in the United States from Newscasters at KTLA, a television station in Los Angeles, when several shootings occured on numerous freeways within the city.
Road rage can often times lead to altercations, assaults and possibly even collisions that result in injuries and sometimes even deaths.
 

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