Flipping Off Angry Drivers Can Get You Killed On US Highways

By Robert Riggs

What You Will Learn

Road rage violence shatters records on US Highways. Experts say a perfect storm of post-pandemic anger and violent criminals out of jail due to liberal bail practices has set off a wave of deadly road rage shootings.

Capt Greg Fremin (Ret’d) Houston Police Department

Retired Houston Police Captain Greg Fremin tracks the growing carnage at Sam Houston State’s College of Criminal Justice located in Huntsville, Texas.

The numbers have run off the highway as stressed-out, violent drivers turn their rage into the wild wild west on American highways. 

On average, 44 people are killed or wounded on U.S. roadways every month. That’s twice the average for 2019.

In this episode of the True Crime ReporterĀ® Podcast, investigative reporter Robert Riggs talks to Fremin about the causes and what to do if you are a target of road rage.


BREAKING NEWS:

Shortly after I published this episode the very thing I warned about tragically came true in a Dallas suburb.

A recently wed couple driving to work the night shift together at a paint company became the target of a raging driver.

The husband thought the driver was flipping him off and replied in kind. But it was not the one-finger gesture, it was a gun.

37-year-old Nunez Linares was fatally shot in the back of the head.

Here’s a link to the story.


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