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In article <33fa4754.47299029@news.pipeline.com>,
  whorning@pipeline.com wrote:
>
> "Dr. Driving" <dyc@aloha.net> wrote:
>
> >In article <01bcaa03$9be79300$199eadce@crc3.concentric.net>,
> >  "Richard Wyllie" <dickwyll@concentric.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I would definitely agree that law enforcement would cut down on the level
> >> of reckless driving.  I was driving a cab in New York in the late 80's when
> >> the city started enforcing with a vengeance.  Up to that time, the streets
> >> were lawless.  There was a lot of screaming and gnashing of teeth, but the
> >> word went out not to mess on the streets of New York, outside of reasonable
> >> New York aggressivenes of course.
> >+++++++++
> >
> >I think law enforcement can only go so far without starting to impose a
> >dictatorial atmosphere which we rather not have.  Yes, continue law
> >enforcement activities, but we cannot rely solely on that to reduce the
> >epidemic of aggressive driving and road rage.
>
> Do you have a lot of "hype" to support your claim of road rage? Yes.
> Do you have any real statistics from U.S. DOT that show that causes of
> accidents on the highways are in any significant manner caused by road
> rage or even aggressive driving? NO!
>
> The most significant (over 50%) is caused by alcohol, followed by
> things like common driver error or mistake (a lack of being aggressive
> about driving skill), inexperience, falling asleep at the wheel, (the
> oppositie of being aggressive) and a few other miscellaneous
> categories, with any sort of aggression or rage (excluding those of
> alcohol or drugs) is easily under 1% of the causes of highway death.
>
> People are simply being misinformed about rage and aggression. There
> has been an increase, perhaps. But if it were say that .5% were caused
> by this problem, and increase of .1 or .2% occurred in the last severa
> years, while a large increase relative to the .5%, overall its still a
> lot of hype.

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