Most Aggressive Driving Cities

Above, trucks on Interstate 40. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Last Sunday, while driving on Interstate 40 to Albuquerque, I almost had to shoot out a trucker's tires (or worse) as he had a fit of road rage near Laguna.

He made aggressive moves with this truck and trailer at me (swerving) and threw an object at my motorhome. He apparently didn't like the speed I was traveling. 

I make it a practice to bring my 9mm pistol whenever I travel and this was the closest time I ever had to use it. It was at the ready just in case. Fortunately, he sped off and the incident was over.  

Aggressive drivers is the topic of an RV Travel article. It provides a list of what cities that have the most aggressive drivers.

They begin it with:

Aggressive driving—fast acceleration, hard braking, speeding. GasBuddy, a PDI Technologies company, released the results of its annual aggressive holiday driving study. It reveals that U.S. drivers are up to 48% more aggressive on the roads during the holiday season. The study ranked the top 50 U.S. metros from most to least aggressive, placing Tucson, Arizona, at the top of the “naughty list”, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the city with the “nicest” holiday drivers, rising six spots from 7th in 2022.

What is road rage? 

Here's a legal definition:

In the United States, road laws differ from state to state. But all state adopt the official definition of road rage as described by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA, which is “An act of assault with a motor vehicle or other dangerous weapon by the operator or passenger(s) of one motor vehicle or precipitated by an incident that occurred on a roadway.”

In terms of road accidents, road rage is referred to as “Aggressive driving.” NHTSA defines it as an individual committing a combination of moving offenses that puts other persons and properties around him/her in danger.

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