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Opelousas native almost killed in road rage incident near Baton Rouge
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(KLFY)-- A road rage incident on I-110 near Baton Rouge almost killed one woman; the Opelousas native shared her story, reminding drivers to take caution.
She said this the crash happened because a driver behind her thought she was going too slow.
"I just think in the moment he was irate. He was angry, and that was his reaction. It is scary that people can get that angry and do something like that and continue driving. Because he never stopped," Candice Meyers said.
Meyers said she was in the left lane on I-110. A driver starts riding her tail, so she puts her blinker on and moves over into the center lane. She said then the vehicle pulled up right alongside her.
"I'm just not engaging. So I continue to drive. I don't know if that made the driver of the vehicle upset or not but at that point he takes his car and he swings it into my lane, forcing me to the right," Meyers said.
Meyers lost control of the vehicle and slammed into the side of the interstate.
"That was a direct cause of somebody's actions. They meant to do what they did," she added.
Luckily, Meyers walked away from the crash with only scrapes and bruises, but she still can't wrap her head around why the driver did this.
"You feel confused. You don't understand that level of anger. Something really has to be wrong with the person because nothing I did… I felt like I was curteous the whole time. I put my blinker on for you to let you know that I'm going to get over. I get over. I keep driving. Nothing I did engaged in their behavior. So I felt like thank God I didn't look at you because who knows if I had looked or if I had engaged, it would have been that much worse. So it was scary," Meyers said.
While Meyers is thankful to be alive, she fears the outcomes of road rage incidents in the future.
"I don't think he probably wanted to kill me, but I think that his level of anger, what he did, could have caused me to be killed. So thats the thing, just people realizing when you need help. When you have anger to that level that you can run someone off the road or even on the instate, how dangerous that is, then you really need to seek help," she told News 10.