A man injured in a road rage incident in Northern Virginia that had nothing to do with him is recovering in a hospital bed.
Victim 2, as he’s referred to in the police report (he asked News4 not to identify him), was crossing North Wakefield Street in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington when a driver struck him and kept going.
“It’s gonna be a road rage incident,” the dispatcher radioed. “The vehicle physically drove over two separate pedestrians as part of it.”
About 7 p.m. Thursday, two drivers got into an argument on Interstate 66 East, police said. Both took the Glebe Road exit and stopped near the area of North Glebe and North Wakefield.
One driver got out of his car, and the other driver accelerated and hit him, causing non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
As the striking driver fled, he drove into the path of Victim 2, a 32-year-old man crossing North Wakefield in the crosswalk.
“I thought they already had gotten in an accident,” he said. “And then he sped up. The guy tried to get back in his car, and then he ended hitting him and taking his door off and just kept speeding up. And I tried to dodge out of the way and I failed, and he hit me pretty bad in the side of the hip and sent me flying.”
“I’m pretty sure I blacked out for a second when it happened, because the next thing I knew after being hit was people were standing over me and I had no idea how I got there,” he added.
He’s in considerable pain.
“I have four broken ribs on my right side, which will need surgery on Monday,” he said. “Eight broken ribs on my left side, broken sacrum, broken T5 [vertebra]. I have stitches in my left elbow and right inside of my ankle. My back is disgusting.”
The striking vehicle was recovered in D.C., police said. The search for the suspect driver continues.
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