The worst Road Rage in India is when drivers behave aggressively or angrily. In an effort to intimidate or let outrage, these behaviours include rude and verbal comments, screaming, physical threats, or risky driving techniques directed at other drivers, pedestrians, or bicycles. Road Rage can culminate in physical altercations, property destruction, assaults, and collisions that cause severe physical harm or even death. Longhorn honks, swerving, tailgating, brake checks, and trying to fight are some tactics.
In the years between 1990 and 1996, the United States reported an average of more than 1250 occurrences of road Rage, according to research by the AAA Foundation for traffic safety that looked at police data nationwide. Many of these occurrences have resulted in fatalities or grave injuries. Over the course of the six-year trial, these rates increased each year. According to several research, 96.6% of those who experience road Rage are men and on average, they are young (33 years old).
Types: of Road Rage
Road rage may include:
Yelling, excessive horn use, vulgar gestures, and threats.
Cutting off another vehicle, following too closely, obstructing another vehicle from using a traffic lane, pursuing another vehicle, forcing it off the road, or purposely colliding with another vehicle are all examples of aggressive driving.
Stopping a car in the middle of the road or on the shoulder and getting out to threaten, fight, or harm another driver, passenger, pedestrian, cyclist, or person.
Effect On Drivers:
The way a stressed-out motorist behaves is influenced by his or her coping mechanisms. When under stress while driving, people who perform well on aggression tests tend to employ direct confrontation techniques. Many motorists who feel road rage have acknowledged that they think they violate the law more frequently.
Due to the fast speeds and other drivers’ activities, driving is very stressful. A person is much more likely to display road rage as their level of stress rises. Males that are younger seem to be more prone to road rage. Cutting in and out of traffic, lane changes, arguments over parking spaces, or nasty gestures are the main causes of road rage, according to reports. According to a study, 6.8% of events involving road rage end in fatalities.
Driving instructors and novice drivers are frequent targets of road rage because they tend to adhere to traffic laws very rigorously and because novice drivers are more likely to make mistakes.
Road Rage In India:
According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures from 2015, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra are the top five Indian states with the most number of incidents involving “causing injury under rash driving/road rage.” 4,51,069 incidents of aggressive driving and road rage were reported nationwide, which means that approximately 33 motorists out of every 100,000 drove on Indian roads while angry.
Additionally, these occurrences have increased by 10% from 2014, when there were 409,899 cases altogether. Tamil Nadu registered 54,253 road rage incidents in 2015, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 41,529 and Karnataka with 34,201, whilst Kerala reported over 1,31,000 such incidents. Meanwhile, road rage or reckless driving resulted in 31,161 injury incidents in Maharashtra. It is not surprising that Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, MP, Kerala, and UP witnessed the largest increases in road accidents last year given the prevalence of such problems. The biggest number of road fatalities were reported in Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Karnataka, according to data issued by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) in May of this year.
Where is the Greatest Number of Road Rages?
It is hardly surprising that Thiruvananthapuram recorded the greatest number of road rage incidents among Indian cities—12,440—given that Kerala is the breeding ground for irate drivers. Other cities like Kozhikode (8,068), Thrissur (8,502 cases), and Kochi (10,502 cases) came after it (6,661). In addition, the nation’s capital, New Delhi, reported 7,411 incidents of road rage, placing it fourth among countries with the most irate motorists. Chennai also recorded 6,516 incidents of road rage, mirroring the behaviour of Tamil Nadu. In other major cities, 4,569 persons were charged with the same offence in Kolkata, followed closely by 4,255 people in Bengaluru and 3,963 in Mumbai.
If a road rage event ends in a fatality, the offender is punished for a variety of crimes, most likely murder. Road rage is not now a criminal offence in India, and the Motor Vehicles Act does not contain any explicit clauses that would render it punishable.
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