{"id":192844,"date":"2024-11-20T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:56:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:56:59","slug":"what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/11\/20\/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What the data says about dangerous driving and road rage in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About half of Americans (49%) say people in their area are driving more dangerously than before the coronavirus pandemic, while only 9% say people are driving more safely, according to a new Pew Research Center survey<\/a>. What publicly available data there is on the subject suggests that those perceptions may be right, at least in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no one definitive data source for how common \u201cdangerous driving\u201d is, or even necessarily agreement on what specific behaviors that involves. Most data on people\u2019s actual (as opposed to self-reported) driving habits comes from encounters with law enforcement \u2013 arrests, citations, accident reports and the like. Thus, the resulting data can\u2019t be representative of the entire driving population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, there\u2019s a fair amount of data indicating that Americans\u2019 driving habits have worsened over the past five years, at least in some ways. Jump to read more about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n