Road rage is killing Hoosiers

The Indiana State Police announced via Facebook that a 17-year-old girl was shot after honking at someone who cut her off while driving on I-465 March 20, 2024. The teen said she honked at the driver who responded by opening fire on her vehicle. Bullets pierced the windshield, ripping through the driver’s seat. The driver was unharmed. RELATED: Indiana road rage crisis ranks third worst in the country “I can only imagine how terrifying and traumatizing it can be for a young person or anybody for that matter to experience something like this,” said ISP Sgt. John Perrine. “That’s concerning. Last year, we had 56 actual shootings, with more than 300 incidents of somebody pointing or displaying a firearm during a road rage.” There was also a fatal shooting that occurred during a road rage incident on I-80/94 in Lake Station, Indiana, in the early hours of March 6. Troopers received a call around 4 a.m. from a man who said he was involved in an altercation with another driver between Ripley Street and Central Avenue. When police arrived at the scene, they found Mark Brant, 55, dead from a gunshot wound.Troopers took the man who made the original call...