Motorcyclist kicks car and triggers chain-reaction crash in apparent road-rage movie
A motorcyclist was caught on movie kicking a car, which leads to a horrific crash. Laurie Perez reports.
A motorcyclist was caught on movie kicking a car, which leads to a horrific crash. Laurie Perez reports.
The California Highway Patrol is searching for a motorcyclist who was captured on movie as he kicked a vehicle on the fourteen Freeway in Santa Clarita on Wednesday and triggered a wild, chain-reaction crash that left one motorist injured when his truck flipped.
The 22-second clip of the apparent road-rage incident has been collective thousands of times on Facebook. It shows the motorcyclist kicking the driver’s side of a sedan in the southbound carpool lane of the freeway. The sedan responds by veering left and sideswiping the motorcycle.
The sedan driver shows up to lose control at the end of the maneuver, swerving right, across the double-yellow lines, then hard left before jamming into the freeway divider. The force of the collision with the concrete barrier throws up sparks and lifts the car’s left rear tire off the ground.
In the movie, the car ricochets off the barrier and into traffic, where it barrels into the driver’s door of a white pickup truck, rolling it onto its roof.
The truck glides down the freeway upside down before skidding to a stop in the rapid lane. The sedan spun three hundred sixty degrees and came to a stop in the slow lane with white smoke or steam pluming from the engine.
The motorcyclist railed off without stopping. The California Highway Patrol said the incident is considered a hit-and-run. It occurred on the southbound fourteen Freeway about Five:45 a.m. Wednesday at Newhall Avenue, authorities said.
“Obviously it was a road-rage incident. He was seen kicking the vehicle,” CHP Officer Josh Greengard told KNBC-TV.
The driver of the pickup suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital, Greengard said. The other driver was uninjured.
“It looked like a pretty violent movie … this could’ve been a horrible tragedy,” Greengard said. “More people could’ve gotten hurt.”
However the movie shows the driver of the sedan swerving into the motorcycle, investigators still want to talk to the motorcyclist before citing anyone or making an arrest.
“We need to get the motorcyclist’s side of the story to see what led up to this incident. We’re not sure what happened further back,” Greengard said.
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