A 20-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested early Thursday morning after being involved in a road rage incident.
According to Lawrence Police Sgt. Ted Bordman, the incident reportedly began after two groups of individuals were involved in an altercation at Wilde's Chateau, 2412 Iowa St. The two groups entered different vehicles and left the area heading north on Iowa Street shortly before 2 a.m.
Bordman said one of the occupants of one vehicle allegedly threw a bottle at the other car and swerved into the other vehicle on several occasions. A passenger in the vehicle called police as the incident was in progress, fearing for their safety.
Bordman said the two vehicles turned and headed east on 23rd Street. The vehicles drove past Massachusetts street, where an officer was able to witness the incident in progress.
The suspect vehicle then attempted to make a right-hand turn where there was no turn. The result was a vehicle accident in which the vehicle's occupants, one man and three women, were not injured.
The 20-year-old driver of the suspect vehicle was booked into the Douglas County Jail about 2:52 a.m. on charges of aggravated assault.
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xbusguy 3 years ago
"The suspect vehicle then attempted to make a right-hand turn where there was no turn"
Smart guy, really smart.
zstoltenberg 3 years ago
What part of "A 20-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested" makes you think it was a guy?
cheeseburger 3 years ago
Can you say 'officials are determining if alcohol was a factor'?
whats_going_on 3 years ago
officials are determining if alcohol was a factor
:)
greenworld 3 years ago
No last call or club axis so now they are just driving around trying to kill one another.
greenworld 3 years ago
Probably from Topeka.
jackpot 3 years ago
Booking recap shows Lawrence.
grammaddy 3 years ago
Wilde's Chateau will be the new hot spot. Wonderful.
kernal 3 years ago
close the bars @11pm week nights, 1am on Saturdays and no driver's license until 21. Hey, if you can't act like mature adults, you shouldn't be treated as one. That should cut the texting drivers by 50%.
RoeDapple 3 years ago
There's never a driveway where you need one . . .
homechanger 3 years ago
How does this qualify as "road rage". The problem started at a bar then the chase ensued. True road rage starts on the road. Usually caused by one party driving poorly and pissing someone like me off. I am the king of road rage!
Kris_H 3 years ago
If it was really road rage, it would be an unusual scenario for the instigating driver to be a woman. Not saying it doesn't happen, it's just not nearly as common as for men to be doing it. This does sound more like a fight that just happened to get carried on after everyone got in the cars.
But who cares--the suspect got arrested and one more Lawrence citizen causing trouble in their own fair city was off the street long enough to calm down, we hope.
AreUNorml 3 years ago
I think women are the silent majority of road-ragers. it happens a lot more than you think.
Dejacrew423 3 years ago
No kidding... more often then not I'm getting the finger from some other woman then a guy but maybe that's because I'm a woman myself.
matthewjherbert 3 years ago
booked on aggravated assault.............and DUI perhaps?
Boston_Corbett 3 years ago
yea, they are giving real road ragers a bad name. These were parking lot ragers.
gsxr600 3 years ago
Wasn't it pride night at Chateau?
asbury 3 years ago
LOL!!
asbury 3 years ago
Now no one will know what I was laughing about!!
jbiegs 3 years ago
Only in Lawrence!!!
1029 3 years ago
Uh, maybe it was because you were supposed to yield the right of way. I'm guessing this was heading west out of the East Hills Business Park? I've seen several near misses caused by idiot drivers who think that third lane just gives them the go-ahead to not have to wait for passing traffic. If your lane is ending, you are the one that is supposed to yield right-of-way. It isn't some kind of race to the end of the lane at which point the winner just gets to merge in front of the other car.
Also, I'm sure plenty of road rage instances are caused by idiot drivers who enter onto an interstate and just completely disregard the yield sign at the end of the on-ramp. It's still a yield sign. It's your responsibility to time your entrance so that you can safely merge in between cars. And the cars travelling in the lane that the on-ramp merges into should never have to slow down just to let the merging car get in front of them. That gets pretty dangerous when there are other cars traveling behind.
shawn1040 3 years ago
1029 - you nailed that one! You are SO right about people entering K-10 westbound.. I love it when they move into the right hand lane going 30mph, expecting people to move over for them.
Pywacket 3 years ago
Is it a "yield" or a "merge" sign out there? That makes a huge difference.
A lot of people do not realize that there's a critical difference between a sign that says "yield" and one that says "merge." The terms are not interchangeable and there is a very good reason when one sign is used rather than the other.
Another area where this is a problem is at the intersection of 23rd and Iowa. There are handy right-turn lanes, which branch off from the straight lanes but you are supposed to YIELD until there is an opening, rather than merge, i.e., elbow your way onto the road, forcing those with legal right of way to brake hard.
These situations are very different from legitimate "merge" situations, such as on a 3--4-lane highway, where people usually have room to move over for you if they need to and where stopping to wait for an opening (with a 70-mph speed limit) then starting from 0 would be very risky.
On 23rd or Iowa, with only 2 lanes, the person with legal right of way often has nowhere to go, as the left lane is also filled with vehicles that just proceeded through the green light. The only option you leave the person if you swoop in front of them is to hit the brakes, which forces everybody behind them (those trying to get through the light) to also brake. Rude, selfish, impatient, and illegal.
Pywacket 3 years ago
I'm with the others who take issue with calling this "road rage." It sounds more like a bar fight that took to the road.
Also wondering, if the driver was the only one arrested, why her passengers got a free pass. Was she actually the one who threw a bottle--while driving? Not saying it would be impossible or even unlikely--just wondering if her passengers were simply a captive audience or actively involved in the hostility.
I've never heard of the bar they were at. Is that a new incarnation of a long-established night spot?
amrose42683 3 years ago
It used to be Molly McGee's.
Pywacket 3 years ago
Oh--thanks! Is it generally a rough spot or was this an isolated incident? Anybody know?
Fugu 3 years ago
This is not typical for Wilde's Chateau.
Ricky_Vaughn 3 years ago
Not yet anyway...
Mister 3 years ago
Sounds like they're from Eudora. How dare them bring such horrific behavior to Lawrence.
Pywacket 3 years ago
A bingo? Is there some Catholic church basement angle here that I'm missing?
Kris_H 3 years ago
I agree, women drivers do a lot of bird-flippin' and trash-talkin', but I still think it's less common for them to say, chase down another vehicle and try to bump it or run it off the road. I guess it depends on how you define road rage.
I sure wish I had caught the removed comment that got the "LOL" before it got zapped. :)
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