ROGERS PARK — If the Rogers Park road rage incident has taught us anything, it's that we all just need to relax.
So says neighborhood resident Jeanne H., 71.
"People need to chill," she said after hearing about what transpired last week on the corner near her home.
The two drivers in broad daylight battled it out on a busy Rogers Park street. Martin Vigil, whom police charged in the incident, is accused of ramming his Audi A4 repeatedly into a Toyota Camry, whose driver swung madly at Vigil, kicking and hitting out his windows.
This all stemmed from a hit-and-run accident not far away and came to rest just outside the Morse Avenue business that caught the main confrontation on camera, police said. A bicyclist was also nearly struck in the melee.
If everyone involved had taken a deep breath and followed the law, a simple traffic accident could have ended peacefully with two drivers swapping information.
In Chicago, 50.3 percent of workers drive alone, according to U.S. census statistics. And 57.7 percent of all workers spend more than 30 minutes getting to their workplace, with a mean of 33.3 minutes.
If you can't handle the stress of the road, perhaps you should try alternative methods.
Only 1.3 percent of Chicagoans bike to work, while 26.7 percent take public transit, data shows.
Jeanne, the "chill" woman walking past the road rage scene Wednesday, as news trucks circled, said a calmer future was near.
"But, of course, we hope for spring — and warmer hearts," she said.
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