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To Combat Aggressive DrivingAttitude and
Behavior Modification is required
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AGGRESSIVE DRIVING IS A KILLER

• 27,000 fatalities are due to Aggressive behavior
  compared to 7,000 DUI fatalities
• 3,000,000 Injuries
• 150 billion in costs
• Equivalent to 9 WTC attacks annually

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ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY
ADMINISTRATION (NHTSA) FATAL ACCIDENT REPORTING
STATISTICS THESE ARE THE TOP 10 METRO AREAS
WITH THE HIGHEST AGGRESSIVE DRIVING DEATH RATES
IN THE NATION

• 1. Riverside - San Bernardino CA
• 2. Tampa St. Petersburg - Clearwater Fl
• 3. Phoenix, AZ
• 4. Orlando, FL
• 5. Miami - Hialeah, FL
• 6. Las Vegas, NV
• 7. Ft. Lauderdale - Hollywood
• Pompano Beach, FL
• 8. Dallas - Fort Worth, TX
• 9. Kansas City, MO - KS
• 10. San Antonio, TX
• 13.ATLANTA

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Aggressive Driving Initiatives

• The ultimate objective of any aggressive
  driving initiative or program is to gain
  voluntary compliance of all traffic laws, which
  will in turn reduce the potential for crashes.
• Writing citations is not the main objective,
  but a means to increase public awareness,
  voluntary compliance, and improve the quality of
  life in the community.
• All programs should include public awareness
  and education components.

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AGGRESSIVE DRIVING
and SAVING LIVES
TO "COMBAT" THIS LIFE THREATENING BEHAVIOR OF
AGGRESSIVE DRIVING IT REQUIRES A THREE PRONGED
APPROACH
ENFORCEMENT
JUDICIAL/ LEGISLATIVE
AIPS
EDUCATION
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EDUCATION ENFORCEMENTJUDICIAL EFFORT

• Who are these aggressive drivers? Two thirds of
  the drivers in the NHTSA survey admit to unsafe
  driving. Why? Late for meetings, deliveries,
  traffic congestion, and frustration. We all, at
  one time or another, have either purposely or
  unwittingly taken the role of an aggressive
  driver.
• We can and must do better. We must raise the bar
  on safety. It requires a three-pronged approach
• EDUCATION - ENFORCEMENT and strong JUDICIAL
  EFFORT to prevent this life-threatening
  behavior.
• Rodney Slater, Secretary of Transportation

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Definition Of Aggressive Driving - NHTSA

• The National Highway Traffic Safety
  Administration (NHTSA) defines aggressive driving
  as
• When individuals commit a combination of
  moving traffic offenses so as to endanger other
  persons or property.

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Definition of Aggressive Driving

• Some communities define aggressive driving as
• the operation of a motor vehicle involving
  three or more moving violations as part of a
  single continuous sequence of driving acts, which
  is likely to endanger any person or property.

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Definition of Aggressive Driving(Emotional)

• Aggressive driving is driving under the
  influence of impaired emotions.
• There are three categories
• Impatience and inattentiveness.
• Power struggle.
• Recklessness and road rage.

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1. Impatience and Inattentiveness

• Driving through red
• Speeding up to yellow
• Rolling stops
• Cutting corners or rolling over double line
• Blocking intersection
• Not yielding
• Improper lane change or weaving

• Driving 5 to 15 mph above limit
• Following too close
• Not signaling when required
• Erratically slowing down or speeding up
• Taking too long

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2. Power Struggle

• Blocking passing lane, refusing to move over
• Threatening or insulting by yelling, gesturing,
  honking repeatedly
• Tailgating to punish or coerce
• Cutting off in a duel
• Braking suddenly to retaliate

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3. Recklessness and Road Rage

• Driving drunk
• Pointing a gun or shooting
• Assaulting with the car or battering object
• Driving at very high speeds

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Types of Aggressive Driving

• Lack of Courtesy
• Breaking the Law
• Angry driving

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DEFINITION OF ROAD RAGE

• Road Rage is a felonious criminal offense and is
  an assault with a motor vehicle or other
  dangerous weapon by the operator or passenger(s)
  of one motor vehicle on the operator or
  passenger(s) of another motor vehicle or is
  caused by an incident that occurred on a roadway.

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Why is aggressive driving and important social
problem?

• Because there are over 177 million licensed
  drivers in the U.S. and the majority have been
  raised in a cultural atmosphere that
• CONDONES AGGRESSIVE DRIVING!

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• SOCIETY
• Encourages competition behind the wheel.
• Allows the expression of hostility towards other
  motorists.
• Promotes a sense of entitlement about the right
  to drive the way we want.
• Condones cynicism and disrespect for the law.
• Promotes the idea of territorial freedom around
  the vehicle as a private castle.
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• SOCIETY
• Leads motorists to be time-pressured and feeling
  anxious about getting there.
• Provides people with multi-tasking activities in
  cars without training (eating, phone and other
  telecommunications equip).
• Creates a diversity of drivers with different
  abilities, experience, and purposes for being on
  the highway.
• Equates masculinity with reckless and high risk
  behavior.

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• SOCIETY
• Equates effective driving with self-serving
  behavior (a me first attitude).
• Ignores moral reasoning and emotional
  intelligence.
• Desensitizes the population through a steady dose
  of driving violence in cartoons, movies, and
  video games, increasing public tolerance for
  aggressiveness against strangers and lowering the
  threshold for expressing it overtly in public.

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The Aggressive Driver Mentality

• Double standardIts ok if I do it, but if the
  other driver does it, I get angry.
• In many cases, aggressive driving is learned as
  children riding in our parents car.
• The tendency, if not corrected, will be for the
  aggressive driving habits to intensify with each
  new generation.

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• The first step to changing aggressive driving
  habits is to acknowledge that there is a problem.
  
• The principal method of resistance to change
  is to deny that change is necessary.

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Emotional Intelligence LEVEL Orientation Of FEELINGS Pattern of THOUGHTS Type of ACTIONS
1 Aggressive Anti-social Reckless, impulsive hostile to others Expresses criticism intolerance
2 Defensive Suspicious Competitive and suspicious of others, but also prudent restrained Expresses worries and complaints
3 Supportive Pro-social Helpful pleasant to others Expresses optimism tolerance
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• HOW TO AVOID BECOMING AN AGGRESSIVE DRIVER
• Acknowledge we all have been
• See yourself (Witness)
• Change your behavior (Modify)
• Realize the risk, It is just not worth it
• Keep control for yourself and do not give control
  to someone you think is acting like an idiot

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• HOW TO AVOID BECOMING A VICTIM
• Do not engage the other driver
• Avoid eye contact
• Do not return gestures
• Do not use the horn
• Get the tag number
• Report the driver to law enforcement
• If approached or followed go to a safe location
• Put pride in the back seat
• Always wear your seat belt
• Be a courteous and supportive driver

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• Please Drive SMART
• Be safe!!

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The American Institute for Public Safety is the
nations leading provider of solutions to
aggressive driving and road rage specializing in
education, training and public awareness
campaigns.Courses are offered for law
enforcement as well as violator programs and
corporate training.