Airdrie resident Robie Jacobsen said witnessing an act of road rage on Jan. 9 left her speechless and shaken.
“We were turning off of Main Street onto Yankee Valley Boulevard towards 7-11 and I pulled up behind this guy, in a nice red car,” she said.
“We were all stopped at a red light. The guy in the car two in front of me jumped out. The guy in the red car rolled down his window and before he even had a chance to say anything, the other guy started hitting him. He was swearing and cursing.”
“I know I heard something about a bumper. Maybe he thought the guy had hit him or come too close or something. He flipped out,” she said.
Jacobsen said she called 911 but stayed in her car.
“I didn’t want to get out because I didn’t know if he was going to attack me. I was kind of scared. I’m not a very big girl,” she said.
“Then somebody stopped and jumped out and walked towards (the red car), so I jumped out and said ‘I’ve got the cops on the phone,’ and he jumped back into his vehicle and took off.”
Jacobsen said she went up to the man in the red car to make sure he was okay.
“I looked at him and said ‘are you ok? Did he hit you? Are you bleeding?’ and he said ‘no’. I gave him a hug, of course, because I’m a girl, and told him to go straight to the cop shop because he was asking me ‘what do I do?’”
“I told him ‘take my name and number and head straight to the cop shop,’ so he did,” Jacobsen said.
“I got a call from a constable to go fill in a witness statement and he told me that it was going to court.”
Jacobsen said she wasn’t given a court date but the officer told her she could be called to testify.
The incident, which happened at approximately 4:30 p.m., has changed how Jacobsen approaches driving in Airdrie.
“I definitely don’t get close to people and I drive with my doors locked. I will not open my window if someone approaches my vehicle,” she said.
“It was crazy. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It blew my mind. It definitely changes how I feel.”
“Nobody would get out (of their vehicles) and that’s what was scaring me more. I put my hazards on so no one would hit anybody. I was thinking ‘somebody stop, a guy needs to stop,’” she said.
According to Jacobsen, the man in the red car got the license plate number of the vehicle driven by the man who assaulted him.
She said she was very concerned the driver of the red vehicle had been hurt in the incident.
“There was no blood. I could see some bruising starting. He was more in shock,” she said.
“You don’t expect to roll down your window and just get beat.”
“I should have taken his number. I’d really like to know what happened. I could go down to the police station and ask because I’m really worried and hope everything is okay.”
The RCMP’s Media Liaison Constable Jason Curtis could not be reached for comment by press time.
