Is it true that insurance won pay for accidents caused by road rage?
Road rage, or aggressive driving, has been increasing at an alarming rate, as you may know from personal experience. There have always been short tempered drivers, and the extra traffic and frayed nerves caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have brought many sad reports of road rage incidents. You have no doubt been a witness to some forms of road rage yourself, such as: following too closely, yelling, making obscene gestures at other motorists or forcing other vehicles off the road or into the path of oncoming traffic. More serious forms include brandishing firearms and even shooting into other vehicles, killing or injuring the driver or passengers. It is true that liability insurance may not pay for damage or bodily injury involving road rage. Many insurance policies exclude intentional acts from such coverage. That fact makes it even more important for us to raise our defensive driving skills to new heights. Dealing with this new breed of hostile drivers calls not only for increase
