road rage
noun
: a motorist's uncontrolled anger that is usually provoked by another motorist's irritating act and is expressed in aggressive or violent behavior
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Ryan Hawkins died after he was allegedly shot on the highway and ejected from his car, which landed in a pond, say police
A deaf man from Indiana was killed in what his family members allege was a violent road rage incident, and now two people are charged with murder, say police.
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Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
One person has been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries after a possible road rage shooting in East Fort Worth, according to police.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
Lee Feinberg, Coral Springs After what an arrest report describes as a road rage incident during which Coral Springs attorney Lee Feinberg (admitted to the Bar in 1992) drew and pointed a gun at another driver after cutting him off several times, Feinberg was arrested in 2019.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
Drivers navigating traffic on El Camino Real could soon have new cars to contend with, but no one to direct their road rage at: Driverless cars are coming to the Peninsula.
—Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say a road rage incident led to the shooting.
—Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 2 May 2024
Numerous fatal road rage incidents have also made national headlines in recent years.
—Norman Miller, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
The Star previously reported on Robinson in 2019 when he, then 52-years-old, was charged with third degree assault for allegedly body slamming a woman to the pavement and punching her at least 30 times during an alleged road rage incident.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
The gun law advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety said last year that road rage shooting deaths in the U.S. have increased every year since 2018, from 70 that year to 141 in 2022.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
One person has been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries after a possible road rage shooting in East Fort Worth, according to police.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
Lee Feinberg, Coral Springs After what an arrest report describes as a road rage incident during which Coral Springs attorney Lee Feinberg (admitted to the Bar in 1992) drew and pointed a gun at another driver after cutting him off several times, Feinberg was arrested in 2019.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
Drivers navigating traffic on El Camino Real could soon have new cars to contend with, but no one to direct their road rage at: Driverless cars are coming to the Peninsula.
—Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say a road rage incident led to the shooting.
—Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 2 May 2024
Numerous fatal road rage incidents have also made national headlines in recent years.
—Norman Miller, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
The Star previously reported on Robinson in 2019 when he, then 52-years-old, was charged with third degree assault for allegedly body slamming a woman to the pavement and punching her at least 30 times during an alleged road rage incident.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
The gun law advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety said last year that road rage shooting deaths in the U.S. have increased every year since 2018, from 70 that year to 141 in 2022.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
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