'I saw red': Road raging hero chases after a rogue work truck that nearly squashed a family on the freeway, bringing their recklessness to justice

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 15, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

Road rage is usually a bad thing. When you're behind the wheel and you start to see red, it's probably time to take a break from traffic and give your blood pressure a rest. Not in this case. In this situation, one man's road rage actually became a potential life saver after he witnessed a reckless driver nearly pancake an innocent family. 

While driving on the freeway, OP saw a company truck veering left and right, driving like a maniac. Before he knew it, the truck swerved into oncoming traffic and nearly crashed, head-on into an oncoming minivan. When the family car was forced to swerve into the shoulder to save their lives from a fiery explosion, OP couldn't contain himself. He saw red, road raged, and went into vigilante mode. 

Keep scrolling for the full story of how one man turned his rage into heroics, bringing a dangerous driver to justice with his relentless attitude. For more stories of people who couldn't stand for injustice, check out this tale of an employee that got fired for being sick then got begged to come back after 2 years of an empty position– not for less than a 40% raise though…

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    Font - Posted by u/kingofzdom 1 day ago Watched a work truck almost run a family minivan off the road, chased down and reported.
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    Font - I was coming home from work one day in my shipox. I was on a sparsely used rural 2-lane highway about 6 car lengths behind an F350- weightclass flatbed truck. The truck slowly starts to drift into
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    Font - the other lane. "meep meep" an oncoming little blue minivan has to go onto the shoulder to avoid a head on collision, and they overcompensate when getting back on the road and almost hit ME, who then had to make the same maneuver and almost go into the ditch to avoid a head on collision
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    Font - I see red. The truck keeps going like nothing happened. I follow the truck a few miles until it pulls up to a driveway. I snap a picture of the license plate and company name, the driver absolutely glaring at me.
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    Font - I called the real estate agent's number that was on the side of the truck and informed a lady that one of her drivers was driving erratically, possibly drunk. When I suggested her driver was under the influence,
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    Font - she suggested in a very rude tone that he was probably just messing with his GPS or texting someone. "That wouldn't make that family any less dead, would it? You know what? I figured we could
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    Font - you want to take that attitude with me we can involve the cops" and then I hung up on her and proptly reported the whole thing to the sheriff's.
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    Font - I don't know if I had anything to do with it, but I never saw that work truck in that neighborhood again.
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    Font - SheWho LovesToDraw +2. 1 day ago That woman's response to your call makes me think that she's received phone calls about that type of behavior several times in the past and just didn't give a s. You did the right thing by reporting a dangerous driver.
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    Facial expression - RavenLunatyk 1 day ago Nah. It was his wife. Family business.
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    Font - 1057-cl121v3 · 20 hr. ago I wouldn't doubt it. I've had a similar situation where I tried calling the number on the truck to report the s driving and the number ty went to the driver. He was obviously less than receptive to the constructive criticism about his driving.
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    Font - 1BadAssChick 19 hr. ago This happened to me too! Then he called me back over and over again until I threatened to call the police.
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    Font - TheLaziestAdam - 1 day ago Good on you for reporting. Just think, you've potentially saved someone's life.
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    Font - ThrowRA--scootscooti 23 hr. ago I reported someone who was driving erratically in front of me and ran someone off the road. Turns out it was someone who just hadn't bothered to scrape their icy windshield off. What a moron.
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    Font - - 1 day ago I've always thought, never drive like an a when your company logo is plastered on the side and rear of the vehicle. You're easy to find, and people will remember that when looking for this or that local service. Such an easy way to lose business to the competition. DTM-shift
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    Font - aehanken +3.21 hr. ago Not to mention the majority of company cars have cameras to protect their company from sh y employees
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    Font - anomalous_cowherd +1. 23 hr. ago It also enables busybodies like me (when the Police aren't interested) to phone the Transport Manager at the companies head office who was very interested in one of his vans being driven so aggressively it ran several people off the road.
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    Font - bernie0013. 1 day ago It makes you wonder how people this stupid can stay in business and out of jail. 67 Reply Share ilegibleusername 21 hr. ago It's called dumb luck for a reason.
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