New research has claimed that incidents of road rage have risen by over a third in the UK since the turn of the decade. It found that issues in people’s personal lives are behind the rise, rather than just events on the road.
Autocar reports that the number of police reports of crime caused by either road rage or aggressive driving has increased by 34% between 2021 and 2025. The magazine cites the Department for Transport (DfT) whose data reveals that 10% of the 1454 deaths on the nations roads in 2023 were connected to aggressive behaviour.
A study looking into the causes of road rage by road safety technology company Ooono found that 33% of British drivers are stressed from a lack of sleep, 29% by work pressures, 27 by financial pressures, 24% by family or relationship pressures, and 21% by health issues.
A changing road environment, says Autocar, “can’t be discounted as a cause,” citing the latest estimates from the DfT that 336.9 billion vehicle miles had been driven on the country’s roads in the year up to June 2025, a 0.9% year-on-year increase, and close to the 2019 figures.
Roadworks and streetworks have also increased, it added, with 2.2 million works being carried out in England from 2023 to 2024 over the last decade. A study from Autocar calculated that a typical streetwork project over five days between 6am and 6pm could delay drivers by a total of 270 hours.
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