By Valerie Bauman Social Affairs Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:26 GMT, 14 March 2019 | Updated: 21:26 GMT, 14 March 2019
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Los Angeles is home to America's most aggressive drivers, according to a new report.
The City of Angels is famous for having some of the worst traffic in the nation: drivers in and around the city spent an average of 164 hours battling road congestion in 2018, according to INRIX.
That could contribute to their number one rank on the Gasbuddy list of most aggressive drivers, which researchers compiled based on their users' driving habits.
The average American driver has 180 aggressive incidents - moments of high speed driving, coupled with rapid acceleration and braking - over the course of a year.
Usually it's one of those events that pave the way for road rage, GasBuddy analyst Patrick DeHaan told DailyMail.com.
'It's a bad thing, because that can incite road rage on both sides,' he said. 'From a money perspective it can cost drivers hundreds of dollars a year. There's wear and tear on your car.'
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This map illustrates the cities with the most aggressive drivers in America, along with the average hours spent in traffic and the percentage by which local drivers are more aggressive than the average