Road rage erupts on Williams Avenue after woman gets called out for distracted driving
A police officer responded to the incident via Twitter.
Road Rage
Road rage assault leaves man feeling helpless, frustrated and scared
A scary altercation with an open ending.
Police investigate after road-rager is caught on camera
Video evidence makes all the difference.
A third-party view of that u-lock-throwing-road-rage story
A third party view of the U-lock throwing incident.
DA can’t prove criminal conduct in downtown road altercation that led to driver’s arrest
The DA closes the book on a downtown road rage incident that was initially thought to have led to the intentional ramming of a man riding a bicycle.
Man claims he was victim of intentional smoke screen from passing truck
Breathing exhaust is bad enough. One reader says he was the victim of a smoke screen attack.
PSU researcher delving into “multimodal road rage”
Could road rage tell us something about the gender gap in bicycling?(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Tara Goddard, a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at Portland State University (PSU), is devoting her thesis to a subject that gets a lot of traction in the media but so far has received scant attention in academia: road rage … Read more
Slapping of car leads to road rage incident in North Portland
(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Vancouver resident Don Joling claims he got an unwanted surprise after he slapped the body of a car on North Interstate Avenue this morning. The person in the car became enraged and, according to Joling, it almost led to a shooting. Here’s what Joling just posted to the Oregon Bicycle Racing … Read more
A Portland road rage roundup
Keep calm and carry on.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) I hate to do this. I get a lot of emails, Tweets, and sometimes even phone calls about collisions, close-calls, and other scary incidents involving people on bicycles. The vast majority of the time I just take in the information in and do nothing about it. After … Read more
Reader shares story of bike path rage on Hawthorne Bridge
Traffic on the Hawthorne Bridge path can get dicey… and nasty.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) We’ve all felt it: You’re riding along on a crowded bikeway and sense someone is coming up fast from behind. Do you speed up? Ignore them? Merge to the right as fast as possible? Just maintain your speed until you can … Read more
Ask BikePortland: Should I report road rage or should I just let it go?
When the going gets tough, you should call the police.(Photo © J. Maus/BikePortland) Today’s installment of Ask BikePortland deals with a problem I wish wasn’t so common. More often than I’d like to report, I get emails from people who have been harassed by someone driving a car. And many of them wonder the same … Read more
Beaverton PD arrest man after road rage altercation in mall parking lot
Christopher Williams(Photo: Beaverton PD) Yesterday evening Beaverton Police arrested a man who drove his car into someone on a bike, attempted to flee, and then aggressively confronted the rider. The altercation happened in the parking lot of Cedar Hills Crossing Mall on SW Hall Blvd. According to a Beaverton PD statement, 22-year old Portland resident … Read more