Road rage: Media hype or serious road safety issue?
(1999) Road rage: Media hype or serious road safety issue?. In Proceedings Third National Conference on Injury Prevention and Control, pages pp. 59-62, Brisbane, Queensland.
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Abstract
The paper examines the nature and extent of the behaviours labelled 'road rage' in the media. It is argued that the term should not be used and that more serious forms of 'road rage' should be regarded as violence and assault. Aggressive behaviours labelled as 'road rage' are frequently a result of bad driving habits on the part of at least one of the parties involved. Behaviours subsumed under the heading of 'road rage' only rarely lead to injury. 'Road rage' or 'road violence' does not justify any diversion of existing road safety resources to the problem.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Published |
| Subjects: | 350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services > 350400 Transportation > 350405 Road and Rail Transportation 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media 390000 Law, Justice and Law Enforcement > 390400 Law Enforcement > 390401 Criminology 380000 Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences > 380100 Psychology > 380104 Personality, Abilities and Assessment |
| ID Code: | 9400 |
| Deposited By: | Schnyder, Anthony J. |
| Deposited On: | 17 September 2007 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.carrsq.qut.edu.au/documents/publication_017.pdf, http://www.drivers.com/article/165/ |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 1999 Barry Elliott |