Road rage shootings have spiked 450% nationally and have doubled in Washington since 2014.
Nonprofit newsroom The Trace reports that since 2014, gun-involved road rage incidents have nearly quintupled. One in four of those people shot by angry drivers were killed.According to The Trace’s analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive, gun violence on U.S. roadways increased an average of 23% every year this past decade.The data tracks shootings that are intentional, accidental, mass murders, murder-suicides, police shootings, instances of self-defense and more.
The peak of the shootings has only just passed — 2022 was Washington’s most violent year, with 715 gun-involved road rage incidents. Most of the state’s shootings are concentrated in the Greater Seattle area along the I-5 Corridor, with others around Spokane, Yakima and Tri-Cities.
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