What should I do if the other owner insults and threatens me in a traffic accident?

You can call the police and handle it. It is wrong to insult or intimidate others. As for whether it is illegal or not, it depends on the content of the insult. Those involved in insult and slander will be investigated for responsibility according to law. You can give a verbal warning first. If not, you can call the police directly and the public security organ will deal with it according to law.

Legal analysis

Abuse and intimidation of others are generally treated as public security cases. If the circumstances of intimidating others are very bad, it constitutes the crime of provoking trouble. Citizens enjoy the right of reputation, and their personal dignity is protected by law. It is forbidden to insult or slander citizens' reputation, insult or slander others, disturb citizens' normal life and cause great harm to citizens' spirit and body and mind. The lawsuit in which the victim asks the sender to stop the infringement and apologize is well-founded and should be protected by law. There are two kinds of threats and intimidation. One is that if the circumstances are minor and there are no consequences, you can be detained for five to ten days or fined about 500 yuan. The other is that if the circumstances are serious enough to constitute criminal punishment, you can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years. Writing threatening letters or threatening others' personal safety by other means prescribed by relevant state laws; Publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others; Fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment; Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; Sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other information for many times, which interferes with the normal life of others; Those who peep, sneak shot, eavesdrop and spread others' privacy will be punished.

legal ground

Article 42 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan for any of the following acts; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means; (2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others; (3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment; (4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; (5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others; (six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.