Verbal abuse/threats or actual acts of physical harm by either a driver or passenger of one vehicle directed against the occupants of another vehicle or pedestrians entail road rage and could potentially lead to involvement in collisions, injuries, and death. Road rage has also been associated with psychiatric illnesses in both the victims and the perpetrators. A previous study reported that the most common type of road rage experience of bus drivers was someone in another vehicle making rude gestures at them; reported by 156 (88.6%) of bus drivers in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi in Pakistan. While another study reported 30% of university students having experienced being shouted, cursed or made rude gestures at while riding a vehicle, in the past three months; among a sample of 532 students. (Author/publisher)
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