Is Road Rage Getting Worse? By Brenda Williams At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

When I drive on the roadways in North Carolina, I am increasingly worried. I am increasingly worried due to the poor judgment that people exercise while driving. Why, just the other day, I was preparing to turn out of my apartment complex into the roadway to go to the store when I watched two cars almost become involved in an accident-right in front of my face!

The one vehicle was preparing to make a right-hand turn into my apartment complex. However, this vehicle failed to indicate that he was doing so. In the meantime, the vehicle behind the one that was turning had been following too closely and had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting the person making the turn. Looking at this as an outsider, who would you say is at fault? Well, I can tell you that having been a police officer, they are both at fault and would've received tickets.

First of all, whenever you make a turn off of or onto a roadway, you are ALWAYS supposed to indicate that you are doing so. Secondly, whenever you are driving on a roadway behind someone, you are ALWAYS supposed to leave enough space between yourself and the driver in front of you. Imagine what would happen if all of us followed the person in front of us closely? Well, I am ashamed to say that the vast majority of North Carolinians do just this! And with the population increasing in this area, it is only going to get worse. It seems that no matter what time of day it is and no matter how far above the speed limit I am going, someone is always a second behind me. It is sometimes not enough to be a defensive driver.

In two instances, I have actually had to swerve out of my lane because staying in it would've caused an accident due to the fact that the person behind me was following too close and couldn't break in time. What is it going to take to get through to these drivers? Just the other day, I read a report about how a young boy (12 years of age) was killed when a woman blatantly ran a red light because she was distracted by a cell phone conversation. Is this fair? Perhaps people should be required to re-take driver's education classes if they get into an accident with another person. Perhaps we need to change the way in which driver's education classes are taught?

Who are we going to point the blame at in the future when traffic accidents (ones which could've been prevented) occur? It's going to reach a point where people are going to have to accept personal responsibility. Maybe if you hadn't been following the other driver so closely, you would've been able to stop. Maybe if you had indicated that you were turning versus applying your brakes at the last moment, that person would've slowed down to allow the turn. Something needs to happen, otherwise, we will be looking at much more serious problems down the road (no pun intended).

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