Survey: Speeders less common in Denver - Denver Business Journal:

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Denver, Cleveland and Portland tied for having the lowestg percentage ofmotorists -- 51 percentt -- who see other drivers speeding every day out of 25 U.S. cities surveyed, according to the fourth annual "Inj the Driver's Seat Road Rage Survey." At the otherf extreme, San Diego and Houstobn drivers were the most likely to see speederseach day, at 58 percenty each, AutoVantage said. As for the survey' key statistics -- the cities with the most and leastg roadrage -- Denver was not ranked in the top five in eithef category. New York was cited as the city with the worsty road rage in the2009 survey, replacing 2008 Miami at No. 1. Dallas-Fort Wort h was No.
2 for 2009, followed by Atlanta and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Portland, Ore., was ranked as having the mostcourteouse drivers, followed by Cleveland, Baltimore, Sacramento and Pittsburgh ranked No. 1 last year. Drivers who talk on their cellphoness (84 percent see this every day). Driving too fast (58 percent). • Tailgating (53 • Drivers eating or drinking whiledrivingv (48 percent). • Cutting over into a lane withoutgnotice (43 percent). • Texting or emailing whilre driving (37 percent). • Doing othe things -- such as puttint on makeup, shaving or readin -- behind the wheel (27 percent). Slamming on the brakes (25 percent). • Runnin red lights (22 percent).
In response to such bad 43 percent of drivers surveyed said they honktheir horn, whil 36 percent admitted to cursingh the other driver and 10 percent made an obscene gesture. The survey was conducte for AutoVantage by PrinceMarkey Research. A total of 2,518 driver s in 25 metro areas were interviewe by phonebetween Jan. 8 and Marcuh 24. The margin of error is plus or minu 2 percent for thetotal sample. AutoVantage, a membership auto is a unit of . .