400 Billion Hostile Road Gestures

Dr. Bruce Sharkin of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, an expert on road rage, estimated in a recent study that 400 billion "hostile exchanges" between motorists take place in the United States every year. Road rage results in thousands of car-crash injuries and hundreds of deaths, but no agency yet counts them.

"Clearly, road rage has become a significant public health concern, and in many ways, a mental health concern as well," he wrote in a recent study published in the Journal of Counseling and Development. "Driving behaviors such as tailgating, cutting someone off, making obscene gestures and flashing one's headlights are becoming more and more commonplace in everyday driving situations"

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