FORT WORTH, Texas — The number of road rage incidents has increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say, and we may be seeing even more with the extreme heat in Texas.
On June 23, a road rage incident in Fort Worth led to gun violence near Southwest Loop 820. Then a few weeks later, on July 10, a woman was shot and killed in a road rage incident in Hurst after a car almost hit the minivan she was riding in. The next day, on July 11, a man was shot in the hand during a road rage incident along Interstate 35W, according to Fort Worth police.
“Summer becomes more complicated for some, more schedules to accommodate causing more life stress. Life stress affects our physical and mental health and makes us more vulnerable to what is in our environment,” said Leigh Richardson, founder and clinical director of The Brain Performance Center in Dallas.
