Suspect rammed the SUV off the road and shot into the vehicle. The family of three are ok. Off duty officer shot the suspect twice. Suspect will survive.
A very good reason to switch the driver’s side to the right.
The lefthanded now have a distinct advantage for shooting while driving.
Suspect should be double tapped at the scene. Damn city slickers.
That is a very dangerous stretch of highway. Only two lanes with lots of steep hills and blind curves. Drivers will try to take the turns going 70 MPH and then have to slam on their brakes when they round a turn and see the car in front of them going 30. I suspect something like that is what triggered the shooter’s road rage.
We have a law in Washington State that says you are not suppose to have your cell phone pressed up against your ear while you are driving. The other day we were in heavy gridlock traffic and the guy ahead of us was gabbing away and he kept not noticing when the lights turned green causing us to sit behind a couple of intersections for an extra few minutes.
I honked at him the second time the light turned green and everyone in front of him had already gone through the intersection. He of course did not move his car to punish us and everyone behind us for disrupting his call and gave us the finger instead. So I yelled at him to get off the phone. Two other people nearby also on their phones thought that I was yelling at them and yelled back for me in foul language to mind my own business.
Why is it that so many people are unable to both talk on their phones and keep an eye on traffic that they have to make laws about it? And this just demonstrates how ineffective laws can be when so many scofflaws ignore them anyway.
Austin may be in Texas but it ain’t been Texas for many decades.
Another happy ending to a story about a driver from one of the western states, perhaps?
Dash cams and bumper cams are good additions along with cell phones only for emergency calls. Infantile road tantrums should be stopped. Prepare to get the evidence, and legislate the death penalty for them.