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).