LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A local Driving school instructor is weighing in on recent road rage incidents across the valley, one of which left an 11-year-old dead Friday morning.

Kathy Kelly, Co-Owner of Safeway Driving School Las Vegas, is offering tips on how drivers can stay safe while commuting across the valley.

News 3 had the opportunity to sit in the driver’s seat, commuting across the valley while speaking with Kelly about the dangers drivers can encounter while out in their daily commutes.

“We are trying to get over right now, and they won’t let us over. This is aggravating to a driver, said Kelly after attempting to merge into a left-turn lane.

With more than a decade’s worth of experience managing and instructing driver courses in the valley, Kelly has witnessed more dangers on valley roadways than the average driver and says, while aggressive driving behaviors are nothing new, what she says has increased are cases of road rage incidents.

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It’s becoming a major problem everywhere, and if you see somebody who is acting aggressively, that usually turns to road rage.”

While Kelly says, unfortunately, one can’t predict whether they’ll become a victim of a road rage incident, she says what drivers can do is be attuned to their surroundings. something she teaches every student driver.

“The best thing to do is back off, back off from them, leave them alone. Don’t make any eye contact with them. Don’t make any hand gestures with them and just get out of their way, you know, don’t blast the horn.”

It is when drivers don’t heed that advice that Kelly says things can quickly take a turn for the worse and escalate into something deadly, like what many saw Friday morning along the 215 Beltway in Henderson.

“Don’t act like you’re bad and you can take them on, you can’t. How do you think that mother feels about her son? No, no, I am so, and my voice gets very loud about this because I am a firm believer in the crime that you did and you stupid decisions that you made, you’re gonna pay, and you’re gonna pay for it. Believe me,” Kelly said.

As an instructor, Kelly says she wants to see more law enforcement throughout the valley working to prevent these kinds of tragedies… that she says she fears may only get worse.