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We all know about ‘Road Rage’, but have you heard of Parking Rage? Apparently, according to a study by Privilege Car Insurance it is sweeping across the country with more than 3 million motorists admitting to spying on neighbours to make sure they don’t park in the wrong place.

The survey revealed that 75% of motorists said poor parking left them outraged. Men aged 21 were the most susceptible who admitted to being outraged an average of 139 days a year. Newcastle is where most parking rage existed followed by Norwich.

It would seem that two thirds of motorists believed that it is a basic right to be able to park in front of  your home, regardless of driveways, garages or allocated parking. They admit to ‘curtain twitching’ if they feel the space outside their home is in jeopardy. Remedies include the usual beeping of horns and unsavoury hand gestures, as with road rage.

But parking rage can also lead to an angry note left on the windscreen of the miscreant (admitted by 14%) and direct arguments (12%). A small number even admit to deflating tyres and scratching the paintwork. So when you are parking in a residential road, keep an eye out for twitching curtains, you may return to a deflated or scratched car. By Graham Hill

I must admit that I smiled when I read this next piece of information that 60% of drivers who own sat nav’s suffer from ‘sat nav rage’. 6 out of 10 users admitted to shouting, swearing and even lashing out at their sat navs when it failed to get them to their planned destination or failed to point them the right way. The study was carried out by sat nav app Read more »

Are you a ‘rager?’ Not to be confused with the street slang ‘hater.’ Apparently a rager is someone who suffers from road rage. And what is the biggest cause of road rage? Well, according to the Institute of Advanced Motorists, who surveyed 1,400 motorists, they rated tailgating as being the most likely cause for road rage and turn you into a ‘rager.’ For those that aren’t too sure of the expression, tailgating, it’s when Read more »

Autoglass carried out a survey to see what distracted motorists most. Whilst not top of the list and it depends who and when the survey was carried out children in the car distracted a high number of drivers, in fact 36%. The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) reported that back seat brawls reduced reaction levels of the driver to that of those driving on the drink drive limit. Direct Line commissioned the study which Read more »

You won’t believe the next piece of advice offered by Peter Rodger, Chief Examiner at the Institute of Advanced Motorists! He is suggesting that we queue jump when there are holdups on motorwaysand multilane carriageways. He suggests that where there is an obstruction, such as an accident or work being carried out that shuts down one or more lanes, that instead of forming an orderly queue, like us Brits always do, Read more »