Sonoma Co. Road Rage Incident Escalates To Stabbing: Police

SONOMA COUNTY, CA -- Police say a road rage incident Thursday in northwest Santa Rosa left one man with stab wounds and the other behind bars. According to a Santa Rosa Police Department statement, the driver of a white BMW and the driver of a green Toyota pickup truck both called police at 5:07 p.m. Thursday to report the incident that began as a dispute over one of the involved parties' driving.

Responding officers determined that following the initial traffic dispute, the drivers sped up and continued traveling at a high rate of speed until they both stopped their vehicles in the area of San Miguel and Fulton roads, police said.

At that point, the BMW driver is believed to have gotten out of his car and approached the Toyota driver. The two then got into an altercation during which the Toyota driver was stabbed with an unknown weapon, police said.

Both parties then drove southbound on Fulton Road.

Officers responded to the area, locating both vehicles in the 1700 block of Fulton. At the scene, they found the Toyota driver suffering from a stab wound to his arm and another to his leg, police said.

The BMW driver, identified by police as Fernando Delgado, 34, of Santa Rosa, was reportedly booked into Sonoma County jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

Meanwhile, the Toyota driver, whose name was not disclosed, was transported to a local hospital where police say he was treated for minor injuries suffered in the stabbing.

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