NYC Ranks No. 1 in Road Rage
New York drivers are the most aggressive and angry in the US, an annual road rage survey finds. Gotham cut off Miami, which had zoomed to the top of the list the past 4 years, Reuters reports. "New...
View ArticleGas Fumes May Pump Up Road Rage
If filling the gas tank fills you with rage, it might be the fumes you're breathing, not the prices you're paying. A new study shows rats exposed to gasoline fumes became more aggressive, with repeated...
View ArticleWhy You Drive Like a Maniac
Cars should be safer than ever—we’ve got airbags, seatbelts, antilock brakes, and more—yet traffic deaths have remained steady. Why? Because most drivers are assholes, that’s why. Cracked decided there...
View ArticleLoaded Diaper Deployed in Road Rage Incident
State police in Pennsylvania say a woman wiped a dirty diaper on the window of another woman's vehicle during a dispute in a traffic jam as both were leaving a county fair. Jessica Hollis, 23, has been...
View ArticleAmerica's 75 Worst Commutes
We all know LA has a traffic problem, but Honolulu? It's No. 2 in the nation, finds the Daily Beast , which crunched the numbers to rank America's 75 worst commutes. Some of the highlights: No. 3,...
View ArticleGirl Sues Dad Shot in Road Rage Attack
An 11-year-old is suing her father after he was shot in a road-rage clash—while she was in the car. At issue: Dad Thomas Timko gave another man the finger after the man cut him off while driving. That...
View ArticleRoad-Rage Driver Attacked Guy With Live Power Line
There's no better time to be handling live power lines than when you're drunk and incensed: A Maryland man has been charged with assault and accused of hurling a live power line at another driver,...
View ArticleWoman Plows Car Into Slow Drive-Thru Customer
It's called fast food, people. Or so may have gone the thought process of one Jennifer Lynn Betterly, a Florida woman who had just about enough of waiting in line at the KFC/Taco Bell drive-thru in...
View ArticleCop Charged With Murder in Road Rage Death
A New Jersey police officer was driving back home through Maryland on Saturday night, his wife and three children in the minivan with him, when a road rage incident erupted, leaving one man dead and...
View ArticleDrivers Shoot Each Other Dead in Road Rage Spat
A pair of drivers shot each other to death in a Michigan parking lot last night, in what appears to have been a fit of road rage. James Pullum, 43, and Robert Taylor, 56, got out of their cars and...
View ArticleCrazy Road Rage Incident Caught on Camera
Here’s a reported case of road rage you have to see. Police say Indiana doctor Perrin Dobyns aimed a gun and might have even shot at another driver. David Kollar told police he noticed Dobyns driving...
View ArticleFBI Joins Hunt for 'Road Rage Killer'
A bizarre and apparently senseless shooting on a Pennsylvania highway has gotten the FBI involved, Fox News reports. Timothy Davison, a 28-year-old Maine resident, was driving back home Saturday after...
View ArticleAngry Driver's 'Karma' Payback Goes Viral
One of the more popular videos on YouTube at the moment has "instant karma" in its headline for good reason. A woman in Tampa used her cell phone to film a guy tailgating her, then pulling alongside...
View ArticleAngry Driver Shoots 10-Year-Old in the Face
A Louisiana driver got so angry on Saturday that he allegedly fired three or four shots into a Chevrolet pickup truck, grazing a 10-year-old boy in the face, the Times-Picayune reports. It all started...
View ArticleCops: Angry Drunk Driver Runs Himself Over
A Florida man made a series of questionable decisions this week that culminated in him being run over by his own truck, reports Raw Story . Let us count the ways, from an account in the Gainesville Sun...
View ArticleDriver: George Zimmerman Threatened to Shoot Me
George Zimmerman is making headlines again, and these ones aren't good, either. A man in Lake Mary, Fla., says Zimmerman threatened to shoot him in a road rage confrontation, then showed up two days...
View ArticleMother of 4 Killed in Road-Rage Shooting
Luis Lopez Gallegos says he is now a widower with four children to raise—just because someone didn't like the way he drove. In what police are probing as a road-rage attack, 30-year-old Perla Avina was...
View ArticleMom Teaching Teen to Drive Killed in Road Rage Shooting
For 25 years, Bob Meyers has given his wife, Tammy, red roses on Valentine's Day. This year he gave them to her for the last time, in a hospital room, as she lay dying from a gunshot wound to the head...
View ArticleRoad Rage Victim Went After Her Killer: Cops
A twist in the case of the Las Vegas mom killed in an apparent road-rage shooting : Police now say Tammy Meyers, who got into an altercation with a male driver while teaching her teen daughter to...
View ArticleFamily Faces Backlash in Mom's Road-Rage Death
Some of the public sympathy for the family of a woman killed in an apparent road-rage incident dried up after it emerged that Tammy Meyers and son Brandon had gone looking for the driver involved , but...
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