Bicyclist Says Woman Tried To Run Him Over
Witnesses Corroborate Cyclist’s Story, Saying Driver Revved Up Engine To Hit Man Intentionally
By Vince Gerasole
CHICAGO (CBS) – She hit him with her car, backed up, and went after him again. That’s how a local bicyclist describes what happened to him when he got into an argument with a woman on the road. Tonight, his bike is just a warped pile of metal. As CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole reports, police have a license plate number, but the driver’s still out there.
His bike may be in pieces, but Tim Heath is lucky he’s not.
"When someone is clearly, intentionally revving up to run you over, that’s really intimidating," said Heath.
As Heath tells it, he got into a spat over lane space with a female motorist at the corner of Milwaukee and Diversey.
"She had already tried to cut me off earlier," said Heath.
The twisted story of what happened next seems classic road rage.
"At that point, she got really aggravated, and started yelling and screaming, and threatening that she was gonna run me over," said Heath. "She came blasting forward, and luckily I had this bike between me and her, and the bike took the beating."
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