Road rage behind dangerous driving
One in five drivers admit they would get out of their car to confront someone in a road rage incident, new research has revealed.
Two thirds of survey respondents said they frequently get frustrated by other drivers and 22 per cent said that they actually get out of their car to confront other drivers, while 32 per cent have had that happen to them.
The research comes after a Central Coast couple who were lucky not to lose control of their vehicle when another driver deliberately rammed his car into them.
It was all caught on camera.
In another incident, father-of-three Jamie Cowling was tailgated for 15 minutes by a P-plate driver. He got out of his car at the lights and terrorised Jamie.
"He's punched the window three times, trying to get in," he said.
"I was terrified sitting in the driver's seat... then he's got agitated even more and he's punched the door.
"And then he's smashed the windscreen, hit it once and then hit it twice, and as soon as he smashed it, that was his end result - he wanted damage."
Almost one in four admit they regularly exceed the speed limit, while 70 per cent of people surveyed said their top peeve is other drivers not indicating.
Sixty-eight per cent of people cited tailgating as an issue, 60 per cent said weaving in and out of lanes and 54 per cent found driving too slowly frustrating.
While cyclists are often maligned, 43 per cent of drivers in the survey didn't believe cyclists should be on the road and ten per cent admitted they had been in a collision with a cyclist.
It is also motor cyclists who are causing frustration for drivers, with almost 20 per cent of survey respondents wishing they were not on the road as well.
