It takes a lot of irresponsibility and bullying to drive another car off the road. It's only happened to me once and the guy who drove me off the road from my own legal lane was a senility case, whom I reported to authorities.
I suspect the weaver was doing a lot more than just not noticing the effect he was having on other cars as he plowed forward and assaulted others. I think he's the one who belongs in the dock, not the war wife.
It said she had to swerve off the road to avoid them -- that's not quite the same as being run off the road.
I've swerved onto the shoulder before because someone who was merging from the left was watching to make sure the car in front of them didn't stop and just didn't notice me.
Maybe the woman had a gap between her and the next car, but when the other driver signaled, she ran up so they couldn't merge in, and they didn't notice and started merging anyway.
I know I've merged into the same lane as someone else at least one or twice in my life, not on purpose. Fortunately, every time I've done it or others have done it to me, one of us was attentive enough to pull over and prevent an accident.
I never responded by throwing things at their car.
It could of course be that the other guy WAS being a completely obnoxious driver. The story seems to tell the story only from the woman's perspective, since the other driver wasn't charged so far as we know he probably figured keeping quiet was the best avenue.
I liked that the woman in the other car was upset the police took this to a trial and she might have been jailed. Community service would have been an appropriate way to handle it, with a record being expunged. No use having a criminal record for just throwing a soda.