Highway deaths hold steady. The number of people who are dying on the highway is not changing. In 1998 the amount of people who are killed in car accidents are only two more than 1999. This leads me to believe that there is many faults in the way people handle themselves while on the road. The actual number of deaths on the highway for 1999 is 43,986. The relatives of nearly forty-five thousand people are either called, or visited by the highway patrol of their state and are given the news of their loved-ones death. When looking at the statistics and then looking at the way I see people driving on the highway, it is not hard to see why so many people die.
             The number one factor that causes so many accidents is road rage. It is estimated that between 1990 and 1999 that there was a 60 percent increase in the number of people who drive aggressively. A poll, taken in August of 1999, found that Americans believe 74 percent of the people they see driving, are more aggressive than they were five years ago. In Whittier, California a clinical psychologist by the name of Arnold Nerenberg has been quoted as saying "This competitiveness on the road is similar to what you see in all social mammals." The way people act while driving makes me thing that there in a giant race. I'm going the speed limit exactly and everybody is flying right by me. I don't know what it is that makes people feel that they have to be on the road the least at possible. It might be that some of them think they don't want to be caught in any accident delays. What makes me angry is the people who don't have enough common sense to realize that all they're doing!
             is making it harder for everybody else who are in the same boat as they are. In a rush to get home so you can avoid as many delays as possible and they themselves cause the delays.
             The four main reasons that start road rage are cutting another driver off, dri...