Road rage: where the angriest drivers in Australia live

Drivers in one Australian city are getting hot under the collar more than anywhere else in the country despite there being a relatively low number of vehicles on the road.

Perth, in Western Australia, might be renowned for its slow-moving charm, but it has recently been given the title of being home to the country’s most stressed out drivers.

Motorists in Fremantle, about 20 kilometres southwest of the city, topped the charts for road raging drivers, with them accounting for 72.7 per cent of stressed out tweets, according to data collected by Budget Direct.

Seven out of the top ten roads that caused the most stress were also in Western Australia, with Perth’s Reid Highway, Leach Highway and Welshpool Road scoring 100 per cent for stressful tweets.

Behind them were WA’s Kwinana Freeway, Roe Highway, Tonkin Highway and the Mitchell Freeway, with the latter only over taken by Victoria’s Nepean Highway.

The roads that caused the fewest stressed tweets were Victoria’s Tullamarine Freeway, the Dandenong Bypass, Warrigal Road, South Gippsland Highway and the West Gate Freeway.

In equal pole position with Fremantle for having the most rage behind the wheel were drivers in Queensland’s coastal city of Mackay.

Sentiment analysis tool TensiStrength found drivers in Mackay were also behind 72.7 per cent of driving-related Twitter rage.

Behind it was Parramatta in NSW, Darwin in the Northern Territory, Wagga Wagga in NSW, Brisbane in Queensland, Byron Bay in NSW, Bendigo and Ballarat in Victoria, and Townsville in Queensland.

While NSW and Victoria have the biggest population density, they didn’t even crack the top three in terms of states with the most angry driving tweets.

Drivers in the Northern Territory were the worst offenders, with 63.2 per cent of driving-related tweets being stressed which according to Budget Direct, made it the state where drivers were “most likely to spark road rage”.

Queensland was the next worse offender with 57.4 per cent, then the ACT, WA, NSW, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, respectively.

Drivers who were the least stressed on the road lived in NSW’s Newcastle, with their stress rate tweets just 44 per cent.

Surveyed Australians indicated they were most peeved on the road by dangerous driving, aggression, or rudeness from other motorists.

Tasmanians were found to be the least irritable, based on combining the situations that make people feel angry or annoyed.

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Meanwhile, Queensland drivers were the most easily ticked off.

More than 70 per cent of Australians surveyed said they had another driver shout, swear, or rudely gesture at them while on the road in the previous 12 months.

Western Australians were the most likely to experience with road, with just 34 per cent saying they had not been a victim of road rage in the past year.

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