“I Don’t Want To Even Look At Him”: Woman Shares How Her Husband Failed To Protect Her During A Road Rage Incident
Recently, an upset woman turned to the TrueOffMyChest community on Reddit to share the road rage incident she and her husband endured a few weeks ago. “We cut someone off in traffic and it pissed the other driver off,” the woman explained.
The car started following them: “it tailgated us, beeping its horn, and my husband kept trying to give the car room to go around us but the car would slow down with us and speed up with us and it followed us almost to our house.”
The tension rose, and since the author was 7 months pregnant, she “didn’t want the mysterious driver knowing where we live so we pulled into a petrol station instead.” The woman got out of the car, so did the stranger, and the story took a very vicious turn.
A pregnant woman gets viciously attacked by a driver in a petrol station while her husband sits in their car and does nothing
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The author later added an update to the story
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Aggressive driving is a factor in 54% of all fatal motor vehicle crashes, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
State laws consider speeding, improper lane usage, or tailgating as aggressive driving. If a person is being aggressive or you sustain injuries in an incident of road rage, there are vital steps to take in the aftermath. When a person is showing signs of aggression and road rage, the best move for the other driver is to remove themselves from the situation if at all possible.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there are legal differences between road rage and aggressive driving. Aggressive driving can include anything construed as reckless: tailgating, speeding, weaving between lanes without a blinker, or blocking another car from passing.
Meanwhile, road rage is more serious. It often involves a violent intent towards another driver and includes behaviors such as using a vehicle to ram another car, physically fighting with another driver, or using a weapon to threaten or cause harm or even death.
“If someone is driving in a way you don’t think is appropriate, it can lead to becoming angry,” Brad Parker, the injury lawyer warns. “However, you never know what someone else is capable of or whether or not they have a weapon. Take a deep breath, and just let it go. I know it can be hard sometimes. It’s not worth losing your life over. There are loved ones at home who will miss you.”
She also answered some questions in the comments
And this is how people reacted to this whole story
I agree with the commentators who say it was a stupid decision to get out of the car and confront an obviously unhinged man, but her husband should've stopped his pregnant wife from making this mistake, not just sit there like it has nothing to do with him.
Agree. He could have simply locked the car and said 'no'. If he can't handle even that much of a confrontation, how is he going to handle a child who by default is going to get confrontational and will have to be stopped for their own good? By the way OP is wording things, I have to wonder if this wasn't a very dumb attempt on her husband's part to teach her a lesson on the consequences of being this hot-headed.
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Apparently, apologizing is “being confrontational and escalating a situation”. Stop victim blaming. If the husband was unwilling to get out of the car while his pregnant wife was getting hit, he should have at least called the cops. A bystander cared more than he did.
Not to mention, it's apparently "abusive" according to one comment. (WTF) The reason it's a bad idea to leave the car is because you can't reason with road rage a$$holes. If people cut me off, I honk at them. I don't follow them around the city. The wife is just too nice of a person who made the mistake of thinking that using her words like a grown adult would solve the problem. Her husband should've at least called the cops.
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Uhhh..you lay a finger on my lady and I'll be on the local news that night wearing an orange jumpsuit and not even think twice about doing it.
Yup. If somebody had slapped my wife I'd have grabbed anything in the car that could cause serious damage and gone for him.
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I agree with the commentators who say it was a stupid decision to get out of the car and confront an obviously unhinged man, but her husband should've stopped his pregnant wife from making this mistake, not just sit there like it has nothing to do with him.
Agree. He could have simply locked the car and said 'no'. If he can't handle even that much of a confrontation, how is he going to handle a child who by default is going to get confrontational and will have to be stopped for their own good? By the way OP is wording things, I have to wonder if this wasn't a very dumb attempt on her husband's part to teach her a lesson on the consequences of being this hot-headed.
Load More Replies... Apparently, apologizing is “being confrontational and escalating a situation”. Stop victim blaming. If the husband was unwilling to get out of the car while his pregnant wife was getting hit, he should have at least called the cops. A bystander cared more than he did.
Not to mention, it's apparently "abusive" according to one comment. (WTF) The reason it's a bad idea to leave the car is because you can't reason with road rage a$$holes. If people cut me off, I honk at them. I don't follow them around the city. The wife is just too nice of a person who made the mistake of thinking that using her words like a grown adult would solve the problem. Her husband should've at least called the cops.
Load More Replies... Uhhh..you lay a finger on my lady and I'll be on the local news that night wearing an orange jumpsuit and not even think twice about doing it.
Yup. If somebody had slapped my wife I'd have grabbed anything in the car that could cause serious damage and gone for him.
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