As a former Deputy Public Defender in Riverside County, Mr. Donath has always been on the defense side of the law.
Top 100 Trial Attorneys in California 2012-2014, 2008 Trial Attorney of the Year by the Riverside County Public Defender's Office, and dozens of other awards and accolades.
Your lawyer should have a passion for defense, not just a passion for money. Reputation, vigor, and determination go a long way in this business.
As a former Deputy Public Defender in Riverside County, Mr. Donath has always been on the defense side of the law.
Top 100 Trial Attorneys in California 2012-2014, 2008 Trial Attorney of the Year by the Riverside County Public Defender's Office, and dozens of other awards and accolades.
Your lawyer should have a passion for defense, not just a passion for money. Reputation, vigor, and determination go a long way in this business.
Posted in Criminal Defense on October 10, 2019
Most of us have heard of “road rage.” We may have a decent grasp of what road rage looks like, though it can be hard to actually define. Road rage is a combination of various incidents that can happen on the roadways. One of the most common questions we hear happens to be – Is road rage illegal?
Aggressive driving, particularly in and around Riverside, is common. Today, we want to look into what road rage is, the penalties for this behavior, as well as crimes that occur due to road rage incidents.
Road rage is not a legal term, though we can use is to define a range of things that happen on the roadway. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) defines road rage as when a driver “commits moving traffic offenses so as to endanger other persons or property; an assault with a motor vehicle or other dangerous weapon by the operator or passenger of one motor vehicle on the operators or passengers of another motor vehicle.”
Road rage is different from aggressive driving. Whereas aggressive driving is only a traffic offense, road rage incidents often lead to criminal offenses. In many cases, road rage includes one or more of the following behaviors:
There is no actual crime of “road rage” on the books in California, but the laws do mention road rage in relation to other crimes. When examining the California Vehicle Code section 13210, we can see that it is a crime to use a car to injure another person who is in a car, on a bicycle, or walking on a roadway. The following criminal offenses could arise from road rage incidents: