Police have opened an investigation into a disturbing act of road rage last week after cellphone video showed three women attacking each other with a bat on a busy Chicago highway.
Illinois State Police said the incident unfolded during rush hour on Interstate 57 on Chicago's south side early Thursday morning after a woman cut in front of a gray Hyundai while swinging a baseball bat out of the window.
Once in front of the car, she jumps out and smashes the bat onto the hood of the Hyundai. That's when a passenger in that car gets out and confronts the bat-wielding woman.
Cellphone video taken from a vehicle behind the two cars showed the two women throwing punches and pulling each other's hair. The situation escalated even further when driver of the Hyundai exits the vehicle and tries to wrestle the bat away in an apparent effort to protect her passenger.
She eventually gains control of the bat and gets ready to swing. The video ends there. One witness said the two women in the Hyundai appeared to be mother and daughter.
"I've never seen nothing like that before. … It looked like they were doing a lot of slapping at first and grabbing, but then they started to do a lot of punching," the witness told ABC Chicago station WLS. "It looks like the older lady was trying to grab the young lady by her hair to get her off her daughter."
Officers with the Illinois State Police said they're examining the video for clues. The clip gives investigators a clear view of license plates of the drivers involved, but no arrests had been made as of Sunday evening.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/road-rage-caught-camera-shows-women-attacking-bat/story?id=65943012
Illinois State Police said the incident unfolded during rush hour on Interstate 57 on Chicago's south side early Thursday morning after a woman cut in front of a gray Hyundai while swinging a baseball bat out of the window.
Once in front of the car, she jumps out and smashes the bat onto the hood of the Hyundai. That's when a passenger in that car gets out and confronts the bat-wielding woman.
Cellphone video taken from a vehicle behind the two cars showed the two women throwing punches and pulling each other's hair. The situation escalated even further when driver of the Hyundai exits the vehicle and tries to wrestle the bat away in an apparent effort to protect her passenger.
She eventually gains control of the bat and gets ready to swing. The video ends there. One witness said the two women in the Hyundai appeared to be mother and daughter.
"I've never seen nothing like that before. … It looked like they were doing a lot of slapping at first and grabbing, but then they started to do a lot of punching," the witness told ABC Chicago station WLS. "It looks like the older lady was trying to grab the young lady by her hair to get her off her daughter."
Officers with the Illinois State Police said they're examining the video for clues. The clip gives investigators a clear view of license plates of the drivers involved, but no arrests had been made as of Sunday evening.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/road-rage-caught-camera-shows-women-attacking-bat/story?id=65943012
