Road Rage Leads Driver To Ram Truck With Expensive Sports Car

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Image: The Porsche Carrera and Freightliner truck had to be towed from the scene. (Leesburg Police Department)

During a fit of road rage, the driver of a Porsche sports car rammed a slow-moving truck on Friday afternoon as both vehicles exited the Route 7 Bypass in Leesburg, according to police.

Leesburg police arrested the driver of the Porsche, David Ray Godfrey, 69, of Waterford, and charged him with attempted malicious wounding. Godfrey was taken before a magistrate Friday and then released on a $5,000 unsecured bond, according to a police report.

There were no reported injuries, but both vehicles were heavily damaged, police said. The Freightliner truck and the black 2012 Porsche Carrera had to be towed from the scene.

The incident began at about 12:54 p.m., when the Leesburg Police Department said it received several phone calls about an ongoing road rage feud between two drivers on the Route 7 Bypass between West Market Street and South King Street (Route 15).

The driver of the Freightliner saw the road rage incident unfolding behind him and tried to move out of the way of the two vehicles by exiting the Bypass onto the ramp leading to South King Street, police said.

One of the vehicles, the Porsche, took the same exit and tried to get around the truck by driving on the shoulder.

As the truck was slowing to navigate the turn on the ramp, the driver of the Porsche, unable to slow down in time, struck it in the rear. The Porsche driver then moved around the Freightliner and began intentionally ramming his car multiple times into the side of the truck in the area of the fuel tank, police said.

Police officers arrived on the scene and quickly separated the parties to investigate what had occurred.