appropriate form of punishment for road bullies

Appropriate form of Punishment for Road Bullies

Road rage is aggressive or angry behavior by a driver of an automobile or other road vehicle. Such behavior might include rude gestures, verbal insults, deliberately driving in an unsafe or threatening manner, or making threats. Road rage can lead to altercations, assaults, and collisions that result in injuries and even deaths. It can be thought of as an extreme case of aggressive driving and from here the term road bullies arises.

The act of a road bully may be seen as an endangerment of public safety. You see it every day on our roads: people speeding past; changing lanes with no signal; weaving dangerously across three and four lanes; passing too closely on either side of your car; speeding up to block you out; not allowing you to change lanes or merge on or off the highway and many others.  Whatever the reason, the road bully has no total rights over use of the roads and definitely has no right causing harm to others. Their actions have to be punished by law in order to ensure the safety of other users .

A road bully must be punished by a jail term or fine or both. Although this punishment sounds harsh, it will act as a deterrent to other road bullies on the road. The length of the jail term will be determined by the level of aggressiveness shown by the road bully.

Compulsory counseling for the road bully should also be enforced. Where the actions of the road bully do not harm any individual and appear mild, counseling can help and prevent road rage from escalating into a deeper problem.

Their driving licences should be confiscated and the road bully be forced to attend driving lessons all over again in order to obtain a new licence. The actions of a road bully endangers the other users. He has to learn that aggressiveness has no place on the roads.

In a nutshell, a road bully should be removed from the roads to prevent accidents and harm to other road users. Drivers have a legal duty to take reasonable care to avoid endangerment of human life when operating a vehicle. If drivers divert from this duty, then the law must come into play to protect the other road users.