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Road rage needs to be next driving target

Earlier this week, the Daily News detailed the troubling tale of a grandfather who had his windows smashed out after what police said was a road rage incident.

Don Peters was driving along Highway 19A near Departure Bay Road in Nanaimo and pulled up next to a vehicle being driven in what he described as a "dangerous" way. In Peters' van were his 19 year old daughter and four month old grandchild.

After an exchange of words, a passenger in the other vehicle, according to Peters, tossed a milkshake at the van, then took a baseball bat and began hitting his vehicle.

Though the baby was in the vehicle, the man smashed the van's windows, then apparently accidentally smashed a window in the car he was riding in.

Police stopped the car shortly after, and charges are pending.

Fortunately, no one was injured.

As shocking as that incident was, it paled in comparison to what unfolded in Langley. Thursday when the driver of a white truck that had earlier forced O'Brien's vehicle into a ditch, suddenly returned.

O'Brien was standing with two friends alongside his white Silverado pickup when the white truck accelerated at them.

The friends, Sam Dooley and Luke Stevens, managed to scramble clear, but O'Brien was struck and killed. The vehicle that hit him quickly fled the scene.

The young men had been on their way to the Vancouver airport for a trip to Hawaii.

Police blamed severe road rage in the death.

Sadly, police have noticed that incidents of road rage are on the upswing.

Nanaimo RCMP investigate at least two road rage incidents a week.

They range from drivers threatening other drivers, saying obscene things or actual violence.

Most of us have been upset at one point or another while behind the wheel.

Anyone who has driven for any length of time has been cut off by someone changing lanes without signalling.

Most of us have been behind a driver going 55 km/h in the fast lane on the highway, or behind a driver who waits a few too many seconds before realizing the light is green.

But any reaction beyond a few muttered words under your breath or a short honk of the horn should be unacceptable.

Since police Classic fake van cleef jewelry are so concerned about the increase in the road rage incidents, asking imitation Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry copy our lawmakers to sit up and take notice is one way of addressing the concerns.

Harsher penalties, particularly long driving bans, should result for anyone convicted of violent offences stemming from road rage.

Extensive and successful campaigns have helped both the public and policy makers take notice of the ills of fake VCA ring price drinking and driving.

More recently, banning the use of cellphones while driving has become a bit of a cause celebre.

And rightly so.

The notion that we can simply do what we want while behind the wheel is absurd.

Driving requires all of your mental faculties. If doing so means you are unable to remain attentive, measured and calm, regardless of the circumstances, you should not be driving.

Also important is the reminder never to take things into your own hands. If you see another motorist driving dangerously or erratically, do not attempt to stop them or engage them in any way.

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