Biker on Georgia highway hurls ‘large object’ at driver of SUV in ‘road rage situation’
A Jackson man at the wheel of a Ford Escape said that late one night in June he was headed north on Georgia Highway 42 near Indian Springs when “a large male” on a motorcycle, possibly a Harley-Davidson, flung something at his SUV.
Another motorcyclist, a woman, also zoomed past and was “screaming unintelligible slurs” at the man in the SUV, a Monroe County sheriff’s deputy’s report of the June 20 episode noted.
It was unclear what may have prompted the hostile encounters, but the man said the “large male” motorcyclist later whizzed by and tried “to kick the mirror off” his door, and that the same biker later “threw a large object at the windshield,” damaging it.
The man said he had pursued the bikers trying to get a license plate number but that the bikes were too fast. The man, according to the deputy’s report, was “advised … to not chase motorcyclists during a road rage situation.”
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