taking a road trip can be exciting anticipating new adventures
but for two young women the terror of a journey they took years ago will always haunt them
i'm not pointing over for you go pastor they are on the road from central california headed to reno
nevada we were having a girls day and went to go to reno for the weekend and it was just her
and i we weren't in a hurry being typical girls saying dancing in the car that's when they spot
this pickup weaving in and out of traffic i'm not pulling over hey dude this is the craziest i've
never seen anything like this dude i don't know what to do just drive just keep driving
oh my god go go go go
passenger delaney strykel and driver best friend vanessa gladu are in a serious game of cat and
mouse on this remote stretch of highway they are quickly feeling like the prank
go past her i'm not pulling over hey dude do all these cars see this i hope
we had already passed her she continued to like go in front of us and break check us dude
i completely feared for our lives delaney was so scared she acted out giving the driver the finger
i did not feel for the finger till it had gone on for a while and she wouldn't leave us alone and
then all of a sudden the truck catches right up to us in a heartbeat and we're like what
what lady like what is your deal delaney has seen enough
hi we have a really bad emergency on highway 80.
yes vanessa was really scared and she kept crying and so hearing the terror
in her voice as i'm trying to talk to the police and tell them what's going on and i
still get choked up thinking about how scared she was we have a vehicle that has been following us
telling us that she's a cop and keeps trying to tell us to pull over and she's swerving
us off the road she keeps trying to hit us off the road yes she's in her car she's pushing us
off of the road yeah she's pushing us off the road she's coming for us the woman is coming
she just hit her car has it blocked on the highway and is charging right toward them
i have never felt so trapped in my life i saw her pounding on the window i could see that it
was a badge or something we don't know what to do she's telling us that we're getting arrested
what she presses to the window is an id card she claims is a badge
put it in reverse put it in reverse vanessa put it in reverse
go luckily the calm voice of the 9-1-1 dispatcher helps delaney stay
focused for vanessa she couldn't stop shaking she was one driving and she had my life in her hands
multiple times she's cried because she says it wasn't just her life it was mine
the dispatcher tells delaney there's a california highway patrol office the chp
not far away they need to get there please make sure somebody's right there she's crazy behind us
there's an officer parked right here in the vehicle can he help us please can he help us
please go to the officer go to the officer make sure he helps us please help us
please you can tell from the tremor in her voice that delaney is terrified from the ordeal
okay thank you so much ma'am bye-bye can we get away from talking sorry i'm scared just more than
a month after this traumatic experience delaney learned it was not just her life and the life of
her girlfriend on the line that day during the road rage i had a brand new baby inside of me
knowing that a couple years ago a really scary thing had happened to me and i was pregnant
with him and i had maybe not had him and i'm you know left that i have a super healthy little boy
the woman causing that road rage incident was deidra roscoe
she was arrested later that day and was charged with assault with a deadly weapon
the 50-year-old was sentenced to 925 days in county jail and five years probation orosco
had just been released from the local jail that morning for a hit-and-run incident the day before
despite her erratic behavior orosco's mental health was not an issue in either case i guess she
was going here a lot and maybe you know something upset her you know just because someone else is
having a bad day and being mean doesn't mean that we need to be mean and vulgar back to them
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