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4 - The Canadian Champion, Tuesday, Apni 7, 1998 Chili out, cops tell drivers ~N~j AIR CONDITIONINO SERVICE Have your air conditioning system inspected and serviced today by a icensed C.F.C. tacility. Licensed Technician on duty for both R 12 and the new R 134A Freon Photo by GRAHAM PAINE Sgt. Peggy Gamble, OPP Highway Rangers team leader, shows the 'Road Rage' card that police are hand- ing to motorists spotted driving aggressively. The ques- tionaire sends a message that anger and hostility toward other drivers affects satety on the road and your health. The initiative is the Rangers' second stage in their efforts to put 'Road Rage' back in neutral. The OPP Highway Rangers have Iaunched another stage in their crackdown on problem drivers. In conjuflctiofl with the Addiction 1 oui1o. ho ( 1 duced Tlest Your Road Rage' cards tor road bullies who lose their tempers on the highway. "Incidents of' Road Rage have begun to surface on Ontario highways as a resuit of' drivers climbing into the anonymity ot' their automobiles and deciding to take their frustrations out on anybody at any- time," said Sgt. Peggy Gambie of'the OPP Highway Rangers. "Daily commutes are slowly beginning to develop American like quotients of'road bullies and boors." In the program launched March 24, police will stop drivers caught making derogatory gestures to other drivers or exhibiting similar aggressive behaviour and counsel them on the spot, she said. The action will include taking the road rage' test displayed on the cards. 'Today's highways can offeen swell with congestion causing driver aggravation and along with these conditions, unthinking gestures can possibly lead to unfriendly face-offa with total strangers," Sgt. Gambie saîd. The 'Test Your Road Rage' cards pre- serve driver anonymity and will be collect- ed by the OPP Highway Rangers for stais- tical data and problem analysis purposes, she said. Advice for aggressive drivers and lips for avoiding 'road rage' are on the back of the cards. Enforcement alone is not enough to suIve the problem, said OPP Regional Commander Bill Currie. "An equal balance of education and pub- lic awareness is also required to ensure that we are truly addressing a communlty problem itself and not only responding to various symptoms of the particular prob- Dr. Patrick Smith of Torontos Addiction Research Foundation said the program is an "excellent star" by the OPP to battie aggressive driving bead-on.