[EastTexasTraveler]

“driving to watch the sunrise in Galveston”
“at around 1 a.m. on Interstate 45 in Houston”

It is not that far from Houston to Galveston, and the sun does not rise at 1 a.m. This does not change what happened, but it does not make sense.

[BradyLS]

I agree that the “watch the sunrise” story sounds bogus.

Possibly the three were at a party and she was their designated driver. Or boyfriend and buddy were out drinking and called her to pick them up.

[Verginius Rufus]

You are right about it not making sense--the sun never rises at 1 a.m. in Texas, and we are near the time for the latest sunrises of the year.

At 1 a.m. it's likely no one got a look at the license plate so the perpetrator will probably never be caught, unless he brags about it to the wrong person.

There was a similar incident on the Houston freeways a couple of years ago when a black driver got angry at another driver and shot at his car, killing the other driver's wife. I think that was in rush hour, at any rate not in the middle of the night.