Where RAGE Meets the Road – Ep. 25

In 2023, 92% of people responding to a survey on road rage said they had witnessed at least one act of road rage during the previous year. Some of these incidents end without consequence; others have fatal results.

On this episode of The Escape Pod, co-hosts Charity and Julie try to keep their cool as they take on a topic that gets almost every driver revved up at one point in time or another!

Bullet Points of Key Topics and Markers:

Topic #1 9:23 Scary road rage stats

Topic #2 11:32 June 2017: A man jockeying for position on a Pennsylvania highway fires a gun at a teen driver

Topic #3 17:52 Co-hosts become “mama bears” when dealing with dangerous drivers

Topic #4 25:39 A woman waiting to make a left turn honks at the person in front of her and gets an unusual – but pretty hilarious – response

Topic #5 37:35 Road “rouge” explained!

Resources & Links

Vince Lattanzio. 12/13/2018. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/man-killed-teen-road-rage-shooting-sentenced/206687/

Ron Shaffer. 04/02/2000. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/04/03/a-strange-case-of-road-rage-with-a-lesson-learned/cc408818-59c8-4841-904b-ea64999a9dda/

https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/road-rage-statistics/

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Where RAGE Meets the Road – Ep. 25

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