KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police are investigating two cases of road rage in as many days.
On Friday morning, a driver in a gold GMC truck threw a bottle at a semi-truck on Blue Parkway before getting on I-435.
Once they were on the interstate things quickly escalated.
Police said the driver of the truck shot at the semi-truck at least four times.
The bullets shattered the cab’s windows and narrowly missed the driver, who pulled over on I-435 and State Line Road to call the police.
On Thursday, Nicole Bland and her husband Chase were driving to work on I-435 south when a man in a white Ford Edge cut them off.
“I flashed my lights at him to say, ‘Come on man, what are you doing?’” Chase Bland told 41 Action News on Friday.
The man didn’t like that so he threw an object at Bland’s car. Chase initially thought he also had a gun.
“I drove around him to get away from him, to leave the scene because it wasn’t worth dying over. Getting past him I saw he didn’t have a gun; he was just posturing a threat,” Chase Bland said.
So Chase pulled over in front of the man’s car and asked for his insurance information.
The man got out of his car but refused to give it over. The stranger then chose to use his Ford Edge as a weapon.
“My face hit the windshield. He continued to drive,” Chase Bland said. “And that’s when he bumped into our car and kept driving. That’s what pinned my legs to the bumper, that’s what caused me to fall down and have to hold the wheel so he didn’t drive me over and kill me as he drove away.”
Chase’s wife who is six months pregnant watched in horror.
“Honestly when the tail light exploded I didn’t know if it was the red from the taillight that was being released or if it was my husband’s flesh,” Nicole Bland said.
Chase is now nursing numerous injuries including a broken left ankle.
Police did run the suspect’s license plates but they belong to another vehicle.
The Blands don’t want this to happen to another person again.
“I think people really underestimate how quickly something so small like throwing something or veering at somebody or cutting them off can escalate to a really life-threatening accident,” Nicole Bland said.
Police are still tracking suspects in both cases of road rage.
If you have any information call police or the KC Crimestoppers TIPS Hotline 816-474-TIPS (8477).
