Road Rage Stories

Outside of the U.S.

• In Mississauga, Canada a driver of a van was run over by a pickup truck during the truck driver's fit of road rage (Toronto Star, 17 June, 2000).
• In London, two drivers came to blows over who was going to use the car wash first at a service station in Lightwater (Sunday Telegraph, 02 July, 2000).
• In Israel, a driver was beaten to death after he cut off another driver in traffic (Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2000).
• In Jerusalem, July 1999 saw the stabbing death of a 36 year-old driver after he asked another driver not to scratch his car, and the knifing of a 50 year-old man by a 19 year-old when the elder driver honked his car horn at the younger driver (The Jerusalem Post, 21 June 2000).
• Again, in Jerusalem, a 28 year-old man was charged in the beating death of a 46 year-old man whom he says cut him off on the road; the elder man was never allowed to emerge from his vehicle, he was beaten to death as he sat behind the steering wheel of his car (The Jerusalem Post, 21 June 2000).
• In Ireland, a car driver became angry after a bus overtook him on the road. Consequently, the car driver pulled in front of the bus, forced it to stop, and attacked it (The Irish Times, 23 May 2000).
• In New Zealand, a 35 year-old driver became irate when he felt he was being followed to closely by another vehicle, in turn, he assaulted the other driver through his open car window (The Southland Times, 31 May 2000).
• In Malaysia, a 30 year-old man who stabbed another man to death over an incident of road rage was sentenced to 10 years in prison (Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 4 July 2000).
• In China, a 44 year-old police officer who killed a 28 year-old man in a fit of road rage was sentenced to death (Agence France Presse, 3 July 2000).
• In India, a popular skating instructor used his vehicle to repeatedly run over, crush, and kill another man with whom he argued over an incident on the road. This incident was preceded by an angry motorist who killed a young girl and dumped her body in a drain and a young man on a scooter who "thrashed" a couple also riding a scooter because he was enraged that they stopped at a yellow caution light instead of proceeding through it (India Today, 15 May 2000).

In the U.S.

• In Atlanta, Georgia a two-year old toddler was shot through the neck by an irate motorist engaged in an argument over a road incident with the toddler's father (The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, 30 June 2000).
• In Denver, Colorado a 51 year-old man used a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol to kill a 32 year-old bicyclist who cut him off on the road (The Denver Post, 21 June 2000).
• In Detroit, Michigan a 34 year-old man said he was attacked with a club by another motorist after the two drivers stopped on the road to confront each other (The Detroit News, 24 May 2000).
• Near Cincinnati, Ohio a 29 year-old woman cut in front of a 24 year-old pregnant woman and slammed on her brakes in an irate gesture following her anger about the latter's driving. The mother-to-be lost control of her car in a violent accident in which her unborn child was killed (Newsweek, 02 June 1997).
• In Florida, a 41 year-old man who pulled into an exact change lane at a toll booth was shot and killed as he exited his truck to confront an irate driver behind him who was annoyed at the 41 year-old's delay in paying the toll (Car and Driver, September 1998).