3dGameMan
09-06-2004, 08:57 AM
Road rage horror: Ax, hammer: ~source (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/228070p-195843c.html)
Road rage horror: Ax, hammer
BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA
DAILY NEWS WRITER
A wild-eyed Cadillac driver attacked two other motorists with a hatchet and a hammer during a bizarre road-rage incident on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway yesterday.
The mayhem unfolded after the enraged man intentionally cut off other cars on the highway near Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn Heights about 2:30 p.m., police and witnesses said.
The silver Cadillac swerved in front of a sport-utility vehicle and stopped, causing the SUV to come to a sudden halt. A small truck then bumped into the stopped SUV, and seconds later a red pickup truck collided with the small truck, witnesses said.
Everyone escaped injury until the driver of the Cadillac jumped out of the car, opened his trunk and grabbed the hatchet and hammer, cops said.
The armed man opened the door of the first car behind him and slashed the arm of the stunned driver, cops said.
"They were all backing off, saying, 'Hey! Hey! Hey!' " said witness Bill Covert, 32, a Con Ed worker who dialed 911. "Then he drops the ax . . . gets a framer's hammer . . . [and] hits another guy with it on the head."
Other drivers grabbed the hammer and hatchet, but the enraged attacker wasn't through, witnesses said.
He got back in his car and tried to run over the motorists, along with two children who were passengers in one of the cars, before fleeing westbound on the highway, Covert said. "It was sick," Covert said. "It's horrible what this guy did. There was maybe minor rear-end damage to [his] car."
The two injured motorists - brothers from Queens who were following each other on the highway - were taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, police said.
With Greg Gittrich
Originally published on September 2, 2004
Road rage horror: Ax, hammer
BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA
DAILY NEWS WRITER
A wild-eyed Cadillac driver attacked two other motorists with a hatchet and a hammer during a bizarre road-rage incident on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway yesterday.
The mayhem unfolded after the enraged man intentionally cut off other cars on the highway near Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn Heights about 2:30 p.m., police and witnesses said.
The silver Cadillac swerved in front of a sport-utility vehicle and stopped, causing the SUV to come to a sudden halt. A small truck then bumped into the stopped SUV, and seconds later a red pickup truck collided with the small truck, witnesses said.
Everyone escaped injury until the driver of the Cadillac jumped out of the car, opened his trunk and grabbed the hatchet and hammer, cops said.
The armed man opened the door of the first car behind him and slashed the arm of the stunned driver, cops said.
"They were all backing off, saying, 'Hey! Hey! Hey!' " said witness Bill Covert, 32, a Con Ed worker who dialed 911. "Then he drops the ax . . . gets a framer's hammer . . . [and] hits another guy with it on the head."
Other drivers grabbed the hammer and hatchet, but the enraged attacker wasn't through, witnesses said.
He got back in his car and tried to run over the motorists, along with two children who were passengers in one of the cars, before fleeing westbound on the highway, Covert said. "It was sick," Covert said. "It's horrible what this guy did. There was maybe minor rear-end damage to [his] car."
The two injured motorists - brothers from Queens who were following each other on the highway - were taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, police said.
With Greg Gittrich
Originally published on September 2, 2004