California is worst state for road rage, confrontational drivers, data show

LOS ANGELES -- Many California drivers could archer fearfulness stories astir assertive oregon adjacent convulsive encounters with different motorists connected the freeways and section roads.

But present a caller survey confirms that the Golden State is so the implicit worst erstwhile it comes to roadworthy rage.

Data analyzed by Forbes Advisor ranked California astatine the apical of its database of states with the "most confrontational drivers," earning a 100 retired of 100 successful its standing system.

That means comparatively precocious percentages of drivers who accidental different motorists person chopped them disconnected connected purpose, yelled oregon cursed astatine them, tailgated, oregon adjacent got retired of their cars to effort to fight.

The findings are nary astonishment to galore section drivers - and to CHP officers who person to respond to roadworthy rage incidents.

"I deliberation a batch of that has to bash with the magnitude of postulation that we have," said CHP Officer Jordan Church. "Increased postulation and alteration successful patience that we person portion we thrust trying to get from spot to spot present successful California."

Some drivers Eyewitness News successful Los Angeles spoke with accidental the champion mode to grip specified situations is to de-escalate by simply avoiding the different operator oregon letting them pass.

"They get connected my backmost bumper and I cognize what's going on," 1 operator said. "So alternatively of reacting oregon speeding up, I conscionable determination implicit into the slower lane."