Man runs woman off road for driving in left lane - tells her "that'll teach ya"

Saturday about 4pm a woman and her infant child were ran off the road by a Full Size extended cap white Chevy Silverado - plate #1361673.

She was traveling on US 31 towards Edinburgh in the left lane going about 60MPH (Speed limit 55) when the white Chevy was in the right lane merged over running the woman into the median. Luckily she didn't lose control, flip her car, because conditions were dry and the grass wasn't slippery, she regained control onto the road and noticed the truck turned into Taco Bell.

She pulls in and asks the driver, a grown man, why did you run me off the road? She was hoping he was going to say, I'm sorry I didn't see you. That wasn't the response, it was "You were driving in the wrong lane, so I thought I would teach you to drive in the right lane." Talk about Road Rage, and intent to do harm.

Police were called and seemed genuinely concerned he would deliberately run someone off the road because of the lane they chose. Police told her she did the right thing by calling, and she would receive a letter in the mail and the police was going to go to the mans home and explain the dangers of his actions.

The woman is lucky she didn't flip her car because this man wanted to prove a point. The left lane or better known as the passing lane is for motorists who need to pass a slow person in the right lane but it isn't restricted to keeping open, and if you're traveling faster than the posted speed limit then what is the problem?

If you've seen this Truck, or know the driver send us his name. 8123908015

If this man was having such a bad day to run someone off the road, then when will he actually do someone harm because he doesn't like their style of driving?

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Politics 101 18/06/2012 13:07:09

She can contact the Prosecutors office about the possibility of filing charges.

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Nikki 18/06/2012 13:09:41

She should have just called the cops and not followed the guy into Taco Bell. Especially if she had her infant in the car -- that is taking a chance that isn't necessary - he could do something to her.

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Chadwick Fitzpatrick 19/06/2012 04:11:20

Way to make Columbus look worse than it already does with your horrendous grammar. My sixteen year old could write a more interesting article on less an interesting subject (if one could even conceive a duller topic). Good thing no one outside Columbus would have any mild interest in reading this twaddle anyway. Columbus is a hick town, but that doesn't mean they should be the ones to log its current events (which is why I don't read the Republic). Leave the rest of us some dignity and either re-take the eighth grade and come back or re-think what you like to do in your spare time, and for God's sake if you get paid to write this blather then watch out, my tenth grade son's coming after your job. Journalism was once a revered practice; if you make a travesty out of it like you have here then you can expect this. I've written longer text messages, you can at least attempt to proofread it for crying out loud. You could even ask your thirteen-year-old nephew or your invalid grandmother to proofread it for you. Hell, skip a step and just have one of them write it next time. Anything. Just don't post junk like this, it insults our intelligence.

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Greg 19/06/2012 04:12:20

**** your moderator

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Paula Jarrett 19/06/2012 15:26:37

I agree Nikki, I wouldn't have followed him either. If someone ran me off the road, they already have rage and anger issues, and I sure don't want to explain my actions to such a jerk. I drive that stretch a few times a week, and ya just gotta go w the flow.

If I'm cruising around 60 in the left lane, and notice someone is closing in on me, I'll scoot over, I had an incident myself where I was in the wrong. I was in the left lane, as my turn was coming up; the car in front of me gave little warning they were turning left before mine, I swerved in the right lane, and was honked at, and thankfully I got it back in the left. This car had been in my blind spot, in my mirrors. I saw a car behind me, but I didn't turn around and look. The lady in the car was saying some colorful words I think, wearing an angered face, and I mouthed I;M SORRY the best I could.

Road rage is nothing to play around w these days!!!

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Really? 24/06/2012 20:31:54

Well you paint a pretty nice pic of yourself and how you was just driving along minding your own...when out of nowhere came this crazed mean driver in his big old truck and ran you off the road! Really? Bone-dry grass is extremely slippery during the summer months so I am not buying your story of how all the stars were inline and the earth was tilted just right and the dry conditions of the grass kept the car from flipping over!

You ever think that just maybe you should pass and get the hell out of the way from now on? Nobody wants to drive behind some numbnuts that dont know how to get the hell out of the way! I cant count the times I have gotten stuck behind some idiots that are driving a good 10mph under the posted speed limit along side some other moron in the right lane and together they have traffic backed up and then when it all comes to onramp and you have people that are trying to merge onto the highway you got all these cars bunched up together with no place to go! I see it everyday driving 65

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