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    Aggressive driving endangers lives and property and has significant economic costs. It is defined as committing multiple traffic offenses that endanger others and includes behaviors like speeding, tailgating, and failing to obey signs or signals. Globally, aggressive driving contributes to millions of non-fatal crashes and over 1 million deaths annually. In the Philippines specifically, around 12,000 people die each year in crashes often related to aggressive driving. While aggressive driving has legal consequences like fines and license suspension, proper enforcement of laws and education are also needed to significantly reduce the dangerous incidents.

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    Aggressive driving endangers lives and property and has significant economic costs. It is defined as committing multiple traffic offenses that endanger others and includes behaviors like speeding, tailgating, and failing to obey signs or signals. Globally, aggressive driving contributes to millions of non-fatal crashes and over 1 million deaths annually. In the Philippines specifically, around 12,000 people die each year in crashes often related to aggressive driving. While aggressive driving has legal consequences like fines and license suspension, proper enforcement of laws and education are also needed to significantly reduce the dangerous incidents.

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    Aggressive driving endangers lives and property and has significant economic costs. It is defined as committing multiple traffic offenses that endanger others and includes behaviors like speeding, tailgating, and failing to obey signs or signals. Globally, aggressive driving contributes to millions of non-fatal crashes and over 1 million deaths annually. In the Philippines specifically, around 12,000 people die each year in crashes often related to aggressive driving. While aggressive driving has legal consequences like fines and license suspension, proper enforcement of laws and education are also needed to significantly reduce the dangerous incidents.

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    Aggressive driving endangers lives and property and has significant economic costs. It is defined as committing multiple traffic offenses that endanger others and includes behaviors like speeding, tailgating, and failing to obey signs or signals. Globally, aggressive driving contributes to millions of non-fatal crashes and over 1 million deaths annually. In the Philippines specifically, around 12,000 people die each year in crashes often related to aggressive driving. While aggressive driving has legal consequences like fines and license suspension, proper enforcement of laws and education are also needed to significantly reduce the dangerous incidents.

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    Aggressive Driving

    With the use of automobiles, together with the development of road systems for the past century, it has
    been since the primary means of land transportation that undeniably improved our way of living. Yet,
    since then, this has also been the means of damages to property and accidents to human lives. Aside
    from causes such as mechanical defects, road damages, and natural disasters, one major cause of road
    accidents that will be focused on is aggressive driving.

    Simply speaking, it is defined by the National Highway Safety Administration (NHSTA) as when "an
    individual commits a combination of moving traffic offenses to endanger other persons or property.”
    This includes failing to obey traffic signs and signals, driving wrong in lanes, passing in prohibited zones,
    failing to signal turns or lane changes, speeding, tailgating, taking frustrations out on other motorists,
    etc.

    Aggressive driving obviously leads to dangerous results. Starting with the less severe, road crashes result
    to damages in property. In an annual road crash statistics reported in an article from asirt.org, 20-50
    million individuals suffer from non-fatal road crashes globally due to causes like aggressive driving. It
    was also reported that the total damages may even cost countries 2-8% of their GDP; not only it affects
    the involved individuals, but also extends to the economy.

    Moving on with the worse severity, aggressive driving results to serious injuries and worst of all-
    fatalities. Approximately 1.35 million people die globally in road accidents, as reported by WHO. In the
    Philippines, about 12,000 Filipinos die on the road every year where many of the cases were related to
    aggressive and reckless driving, according to the 2018 report of Metro Manila Accident Reporting and
    Analysis System.

    With the statistics given alone, it is totally reasoned out that aggressive driving is dangerous, illegal, and
    should be avoided by everyone.

    It is also important to note that these certain acts have consequences and are punishable by law.

    Here in the Philippines, certain laws are created to regulate and to provide punishments depending on
    the violation.

    First, penalty fines range from P 3,000 to P 50,000, excluding damage expenses. Driving license can also
    be suspended or revoked. Finally, if violations are of the severest form, penalty will be prison sentence
    up to its maximum period- plenty more reasons to be careful in driving.

    To conclude, aggressive driving results nothing but danger; although, acknowledging this alone may not
    truly help in decreasing these incidents. Therefore, it is also important to demand proper
    implementation of our laws and to educate everyone, especially the drivers, the risks of driving
    aggressively. By learning the consequences of our actions when driving, this will surely make the road
    safer than before.

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