Search for driver who damaged tractor trailer with bat in Staten Island road rage incident

ByEyewitness News WABC logo
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Search for driver involved in Staten Island road rage incident
Police are searching for a man involved in a road rage incident on Staten Island.

MANOR HEIGHTS, Staten Island (WABC) -- Police are searching for the driver who bashed another vehicle with a bat in a road rage incident on Staten Island.

It happened around 4:30 a.m. Oct. 11 on the Staten Island Expressway near Clove Road in the Manor Heights section. The incident was captured on dashcam video obtained exclusively by Eyewitness News.

Police say the driver of a Honda Accord with New Jersey license plates stopped short in front of a tractor trailer, then got into a physical altercation with the truck driver. Two other motorists stopped and broke it up.

But after they did, the driver of the Accord took a baseball bat and damaged a window, mirror and front lights of the tractor trailer.

No injuries were reported in the incident.

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