The average speed was 80-85 miles per hour, and we were going a lot faster than that, weaving in and out of traffic. It was like a TV car chase. The terror lasted for about 20 minutes, and then the man finally disappeared, Catanzarite said. I went to the highway patrol in Chico, and they told me the car had been stolen from someone in San Diego. Catanzarite also said the police told her she could not press charges because the other vehicle did not actually hit her.
Road rage can endanger everyone in the vicinity of the incident.
It was frightening, because he could have caused an accident, said Debby Hobbs, a student and administrative assistant in the Academic Affairs Office at Chico State University. Hobbs said she recently witnessed a road rage incident while driving south on I-5 near Bakersfield with her husband Shawn. A blue mini van was in the fast lane doing between 65-70 mph, when a Camaro swiftly came up on its rear, Hobbs said. The mini van would not change lanes, so the Camaro nudged him with its bumper, then passed on the right, pulled in front of the mini van and slammed on its brakes. There were a lot of other cars on the road and everyone had to slow down, Hobbs said.