Coworker's fiance almost killed by road raging driver!

[LillFilly]

My coworker has had a hard last year with the loss of a close family member in a car crash and her fiance being hospitalized for a month with a massive staph infection. Her fiance has only been out of the hospital for a few weeks and was driving to work this morning in his '91 Honda CRV.

Apparently, another driver (large SUV like an Excursion) felt that fiance was driving too slow in the left lane and began riding up on his tailpipe, backing off, riding up again. He then roared up in the right lane, swerved into fiance, looked him straight in the eye and threw something large and heavy from his window! It smashed fiance's windshield and made him crash into the guardrail on the median. Fiance managed to get his car moving long enough to catch-up with the other driver and take pictures of the SUV and license plate. The car died at that point and Fiance pulled over and called the police.

As of the end of the workday when Fiance came to meet my coworker, the police had not caught-up with the driver of the SUV and coworker was understandably freaking out. Fiance wasn't hurt and was entertaining some very creative ideas for vengeance should he ever see the driver of the SUV again

[XCashier]

Dude is lucky Fiance wasn't packing!

Fiance wasn't hurt and was entertaining some very creative ideas for vengeance should he ever see the driver of the SUV again

Understandable, but hopefully Fiance will leave that to the police. No point in getting himself in hot water as well.

People just go nucking futs behind the wheel. It's so not worth the trouble.

[Slayer]

Holy shit! That's intense. Whenever that happens, just move over. Let the asshole speed off to where they want to go. It's just not worth staying in the lane like that.

Hopefully it shouldn't take much for the cops to get that driver

[Food Lady]

I can't understand how someone can purposefully do something that could KILL another driver! There's no respect for human life anymore.

[eltf177]

I hope this piece of crap is caught and the judge throws him _under_ the jail!

[Kagato]

There's a number of things I'd LIKE to say, but I'll save them for fratching. Instead I'll leave this.

[otakuneko]

So, if the other lane was clear, why couldn't SUV guy have just, oh I donno, passed Fiance and been on his merry way?

Oh, right. Testosterone poisoning. "Hurr durr I'm a biiiiig man in my biiiiig SUV!"

[wolfie]

Oh, right. Testosterone poisoning. "Hurr durr I'm a biiiiig man in my biiiiig SUV!"

Eventually that attitude becomes ingrained, with their reaction becoming automatic. This tends to lead to situations like "So what if it's an uphill - that Peterbilt is going too slowly for my liking. I'll show him who's boss by running him off the road". Rule #1 - four-wheelers don't run big rigs off the road. You've got 3 tons of steel to protect you in a crash? He's got 40 to turn you into a red smear. Have fun explaining your actions to the guardian of the chrome gates (pop culture misconception has them described as the "pearly gates").