Road Rage, Aggressive Driving A Growing Concern

AMANDA

Olsen

aolsen@antonmediagroup.com

With the recent death of Manhasset surgeon Jaime Yun outside his hospital in Brooklyn, road rage has once again become a top concern. Yun was injured in an altercation with another driver who punched him once in the face, knocking him to the ground. The impact caused a traumatic brain injury, which lead to Yun’s death eight days later.

This is the second road rage incident to rattle the Manhasset community in the last month; in May a New Hyde Park man was arrested for threatening someone with a firearm and then assaulting them at the TGIFridays in Manhasset. The victim had upset him in traffic and he had followed them to the restaurant.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), aggressive driving is operating a vehicle in a way that endangers—or is likely to endanger—people or property. Road rage is the extreme of aggressive driving, when behavior turns angry and violent. media should highlight the terrible results of aggressive driving and road rage. These drivers must either obey traffic laws or risk losing their license to drive,” said Cindy Brown, executive director of the New York Coalition for Transportation Safety. There were almost 30,000 aggressive driving tickets issued in Nassau County in 2021. Tickets that are included in aggressive driving are failure to yield right of way, following too closely, unsafe lane change, and disobeying traffic control device. Being late or in an emotionally heightened state are the top factors that cause drivers to behave aggressively. with increased speed or try to hold your position in your travel lane.

Aggressive driving, the category of behavior that road rage falls under, is a dangerous phenomenon for everyone on the road. Road rage and aggressive driving behaviors include following too closely, driving at excessive speeds, weaving through traffic, cutting off other vehicles, honking without cause, running stop lights and signs, flashing headlights at slow drivers and using vehicle as a barrier. What begins as gesturing or yelling at another driver can escalate to chasing other vehicles, getting out of a vehicle to threaten another driver, intentionally hitting another vehicle or person, and even driver confrontations, physical assault, and murder.

Everyone involved in traffic safety, the enforcers, educators and the media should highlight the terrible results of aggressive driving and road rage.

• Wear a seat belt and encourage your passengers to do the same.

• Ignore gestures and shouts and do not return them.

“These are behaviors that lead to crashes and injuries (as borne out by the events cited here) and must be addressed if we want to prevent death by motor vehicle. Everyone involved in traffic safety, the enforcers, educators and the

The New York state department of Motor Vehicles recommends the following to deescalate confrontations on the road:

• Do not make eye contact.

• Remain calm and relaxed.

• Try to move away safely.

• Do not challenge an aggressive driver

• Report aggressive drivers to law enforcement authorities and give a vehicle description, location, vehicle plate number and direction of travel.

• If an aggressive driver is following you, do not stop or leave your vehicle. Drive to the nearest police station.

• If an aggressive driver is involved in a crash, stop a safe distance from the crash scene. When the police arrive, report the driving behavior you saw.

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