UK cities with the WORST road rage revealed – does your town make the list?
ALMOST two in three drivers experience road rage, a new study has shown.
Research reveals the cities home to the worst offenders in the country and where the most accidents happen, but did your city make the list?
Comparethemarket.com has revealed almost two in three (62 per cent) drivers experience road rage, with one in three people reporting more than two incidents a week.
Almost one in three (30 per cent) have been involved with a face-to-face confrontation with another driver.
The research unveils the nation’s road rage hotspots, the most common sources of driver frustration and tips to help reduce anger while driving.
The most common cause of UK drivers’ road age is being tailgated (35 per cent), followed by slow driving (29 per cent), witnessing other drivers talking on their phone (29 per cent) and lack of indication (29 per cent).
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Somewhat surprisingly, being on the road at the same time as learner drivers was the least common source of anger among drivers.
The top four regions that find slow driving the greatest source of road rage are Belfast, Brighton, Bristol, and Cardiff.
Whereas a lack of indication particularly angers drivers from Leeds.
Mancunians are aggravated the most by witnessing other drivers on their phones.
With almost three quarters (71 per cent) experiencing anger while driving, Belfast is ranked as the highest area for road rage, followed by Sheffield (68 per cent), Birmingham and Nottingham (66 per cent).
Whilst Newcastle and Edinburgh have the lowest rates of road rage.
Town centres generate the most frustration among drivers with 21 per cent of road users agreeing this is where they experienced it the most frequently. Congested city traffic (18 per cent) and motorways (15 per cent) follow closely behind.
Currently, the act of road rage itself is not a recognised offence in UK law, yet 75% of drivers would like to see this introduced as a legal offence.
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But not everyone is in agreement.
National differences in opinion showed that drivers in Wales agreed the most that road rage should become an offence (82 per cent) followed by Scotland (79 per cent) and England (74 per cent) whereas only 59 per cent of those in Northern Ireland were in agreement.