Midnight Run
Apr 23, 2019
4 minutes
BY ANTHONY TAN
“ONE IN FIVE AUSTRALIAN drivers admits to cyclist road rage, survey finds” read the headline in The Guardian last November.
The survey of almost 2000 motorists, conducted by Ford Australia, found that hostility towards cyclists was “highest among people aged between 18-34 – 23 per cent of whom admitted to swearing, honking their horn or making hand gestures when passing a cyclist.
“It found one in 10 drivers experienced this type of road rage at least once a month.”
And that’s just the drivers who admitted feeling angry towards their two-wheeled, non-motorised, not to mention unarmoured, counterparts on the road. Would the real
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