Forgiveness and adverse driving outcomes within the past five years: Driving anger, driving anger expression, and aggressive driving behaviors as mediators

•Forgiveness negatively correlated with driving anger and aggressive driving.•This study demonstrates the utility of the forgiveness-health model to driving outcomes.•Forgiveness predicted traffic violations through anger and aggressive driving.•Forgiveness was not found to be a significant predictor of motor-vehicle crashes.•Further work should be done to explore the forgiveness-driving relationship.