How can you prevent Road Rage?
Author : teriannA BMW X5 is hit by a passing taxi, in a rage the driver of the BMW shoots at the taxi.
Sounds like a scene from a movie?
Well, it is actually from a news report about an incident that took place in Kingston on July 1, 2011.
It got me thinking about the intense aggression among Jamaican drivers.
Often those drivers seem to be on the verge of destroying everything in their path as they make risky maneuvers through traffic.
So how can you protect yourself from road rage?
If you are involved in an accident it is recommended that you speak with the other driver involved and exchange information.
However, in some instances it might be safer to drive to the nearest police station to report the accident.
How do you deal with aggressive drivers? Let me know!
Teri Ann Renee Paisley (Gleaner on-line writer)
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Jamaicans (70%) walking or driving seem to be in a rage daily, the females R no better than the males, old ppl disabled and pedestrians R abused, wet up when it rains and cussed at,
the break down of morals, kiundness, respect and love in our society contributes to the problem, its so much easier to be kind, pleasant or allow another to go thru, thats only seconds of our time, so sad that we mutilate, undermine, disrespect each other and many will agree with me here, but R U checking yourselves? I try to be courteous, friendly and respectful everyday and I am happy and suffer no hypertention
One word Terri.”Education”
The best way to deal with aggressive drivers is to chill. The problem with most Jcans is that we feel that we can’t back down from a confrontation. So even when we know the issue isn’t that important we must respond. Just let in the taximan sometimes and ignore the bus driver when him pull out without him indicator. It keeps your blood pressure down and in 20 minutes you won’t even remembe it.
The news of the senseless killing of the youngster Khajeel Mais has left a numbing feeling on my psyche. An innocent life snuffed out because of road rage of a privileged Jamaican gangster, whose security is guaranteed by his beneficence to the powers that be. I cannot fathom the grief that the family of this youngster must endure. A future denied, because of a car bumper being scratched in an minor accident. And to exacerbate this senseless and wanton disregard for this travesty perpetrated by a lunatic, is the seemingly silence and hush-hush manner in which the law enforcement is handling this abhorrence. Gleaning from this said news paper, information is that this
murderer might have absconded his fate, because of help from the same persons who should uphold the law. I do hope that this individual will be made known publicly so he can be apprehended, just like the others who were named and supposedly brought to justice. Just looking at the picture of Khajeel Mais one could sense his demeanor for the academics. A promising youngster who could have contributed to the development of Jamaica is no longer be. My sincere condolence to the family.
I also extend my condolences to Khajeel’s family.
Sad to know that because of vanity an innocent life was taken
MI HEAR DRIVA A CUSS SENIORS “P.H YUH FI GO
HOME GO SIDDUNG”, CAH DEM NAH DRIVE FAST ENOUGH
EVERYBADY A ACCUSE DI ODA BOUT WEH DEM BUY DEM LICENSES; PON DI ROAD A LIKE A FISH MARKET WID DRIVAS FROM ALL STATIION A LIFE INNA JA AND DAT A WAH MEK A EDDIAT GO KILL DI PPL DEM
PROMISING YUTE CAUSE A ARROGANCE, NEVER SI COME SI, AN IGNORANCY.
WI NOH FI STOP UNTIL DIS FOOL IS LOCKED AWAY SOH HIM NOH DWEET AGAIN, AN US NOH WANT HIM DEH FI KILL FI DEM PPL A LIFE DI BWAY FI GET
MI CONDOLENCES TO DI MAIS FAMBILY
When Lord Acton made the statement:”Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, this is exactly what he was referencing.
Two things that do major damage to our psyche, especially us balck people — money and guns.
When we have them it is a if the world is owned by us.
I am very sure that if that man did not have the money and the gun, he would not have acted in the way he did. I have no problem in having them both, but before we get them we should be taken through a series a training (acculturation) so that we will know how to handle matters that would cause us to fly off the edge.
I hope the person who killed that youngman, when caught, is never allowed to see the outside world again.
My condolences to the young mans
family, oh what a hateful thing
this culprit have ddne to this family
and the country, my heart ache for
this mother , too many of us goes
around argumentative and combative,
I hope he gets life without parole if
this justice system have the guts to
mete out proper justice. I hope I
could be a juror on that case too.
To prevent this from happening to you, you Have to make sure your face is much more UGLY and SCREWED up that the other DRIVA.
Careful Phillip the aim is not to try and intimidate the other driver but be safe!
Finally, a topic that I am enthusiastic about. I have looked for details of this caliber for the last a couple of hours. Your website online is much appreciated.
Phillip its better to ingore these ppl in rage
on the road you dont go home with them and screw face is not the answer.
This mindless creature had a weapon he should never had, and it appears as usual the highfalutin law is protecting his name and identity,Oh well he lives above Liguanea; this is CAPITAL MURDER not an accident and Y was a Canadian citizen holder of a glock in JA as the paper stated.
To the Mais family I say “We may not lord thy purposesee, buy all is well thats done by thee”
I sympathize with you and yours will/must get justice.
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The man did what he did becuz he knew it was (next to) impossible for anyone in the direction of the taxi to shoot back at him. Yup!! You want to see road rage come to a screeching halt? Do what polite societies do. Do what Smith and Wesson did.
These are just the symptoms of a much larger problem.
As someone said earlier, the best way to deal with road rage is to back off.when you retalliate the road rage gets worst
Talking About shooting in vehicles the police do that so often killing or dissabling people over the years.why this sudden shock about this x6 shooting,was it OK for the police to do it.
Get a flying horse.