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Once Again, Miami Drivers The Rudest

By | Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 04:47 PM

The Miami Heat couldn’t win back-to-back championships, but the Magic City’s drivers did.

In a national survey of cities with the worst road rage, Miami topped the list for the second consecutive year.

The poll — conducted by AutoVantage, a Connecticut-based auto member club — found Miami motorists slam on their brakes, run red lights and talk on the cell phone with amazing regularity.

Trailing Miami on the list were New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Phoenix, Chicago, Sacramento, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

The most courteous drivers were in Portland, Ore., Pittsburgh, Seattle-Tacoma, St. Louis and Dallas-Fort Worth, according to the survey.

The most frequent cause of road rage was impatience. And there’s no doubt it is creeping northward into Palm Beach County.

This morning, at the intersection of Belvedere and Jog roads, two sheriff’s deputies with lights and sirens blaring were trying to get through the intersection. But drivers turning west onto Belvedere refused to stop for the deputies.

I saw the same thing happen a few weeks ago at Military Trail and Summit Boulevard with an ambulance.

For some motorists, giving way to emergency vehicles is no longer a requirement, merely an option if they so desire.

Now that’s rude.

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