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Road rage is aggressive or angry behavior by a driver of an automobile or other road vehicle. Such behavior might include rude gestures, verbal insults, deliberately driving in an unsafe or threatening manner, or making threats. Road rage can lead to altercations, assaults, and collisions that result in injuries and even deaths. It can be thought of as an extreme case of aggressive driving. The term originated in the United States in 1987–1988 (specifically, from Newscasters at KTLA, a television station in Los Angeles, California), when a rash of freeway shootings occurred on the Interstate 405, 110, and 10 freeways in Los Angeles. These shooting sprees even spawned a response from the AAA Motor Club to its members on how to respond to drivers with road rage or aggressive maneuvers and gestures.〔()〕 == Manifestation == The following are common manifestations of road rage: * Generally aggressive driving, including sudden acceleration, braking, and close tailgating * Cutting others off in a lane, or deliberately preventing someone from merging * Chasing other motorists * Flashing lights and/or sounding the horn excessively * Yelling or exhibiting disruptive behavior at roadside establishments * Driving at high speeds in the median of a highway to terrify drivers in both lanes * Rude gestures (such as "the finger", or (in Greece ) giving mountzes) * Shouting verbal abuses or threats * Intentionally causing a collision between vehicles * Hitting other vehicles * Assaulting other motorists, their passengers, cyclists, or pedestrians * Exiting the car to attempt to start confrontations, including striking other vehicles with an object * Threatening to use or using a firearm or other deadly weapon * Throwing projectiles from a moving vehicle with the intent of damaging other vehicles In the U.S., more than 300 cases of road rage annually have ended with serious injuries or even fatalities – 1200 incidents per year, according to the AAA Foundation study, and rising yearly throughout the six years of the study that examined police records nationally.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Road Rage )〕 A number of studies have found that individuals with road rage were predominantly young (33 years of age on average) and male (96.6%). In Germany, a gun-wielding truck driver was accused of firing at over 762 vehicles and arrested in 2013, an exceptional case of road rage. According to authorities, the autobahn sniper was motivated by "annoyance and frustration with traffic". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Road rage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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