Definition of road rage
: a motorist's uncontrolled anger that is usually provoked by another motorist's irritating act and is expressed in aggressive or violent behavior
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La Porte police have arrested a woman accused of pointing a handgun at another driver in an apparent road rage incident on Highway 225.
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Police arrested a 32-year-old Sussex man in connection to a road rage incident along an I-43 exit ramp in New Berlin on Saturday, March 31, that led to one driver pointing a loaded handgun at the other.
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At the time of the incident, the 26-year-old told police that her mother-in-law had been attacked by a group of men who had forced their way into the property after a road rage incident.
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In the ensuing decades, Miami traffic has become a nerve-wrecking, heart attack-inducing, nail-biting, road rage-generating experience.
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The wayward bullet that left De'Janae Gilliam in a wheelchair at 19 was initially reported as a road rage incident near UNC Charlotte on Nov. 30, 2015.
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Traffic offense, Interstate-271: After a road rage incident March 11, a girl, 17, was found to be driving without a valid license and was cited.
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The man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 road rage shooting death of former NFL running back Joe McKnight was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday.
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Authorities on Monday arrested a Manchester, N.H. man for allegedly delivering a severe beating to a young woman last week during a road rage incident on a Methuen highway, Massachusetts State Police said.
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First Known Use of road rage
1988
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