PITTSBURGH — A professional dog walker is still reeling from a road rage incident where a woman lunged at her with a knife.
She said, “It’s all I keep thinking about I can just see this knife coming at my face over and over again.”
This is the video a dog walker in Lawrenceville captured Tuesday afternoon during a violent road rage altercation at the intersection of 44th Street and Plummer Street.
The dog walker said, “I go to step off the curb, I’m in the street and the car just went through the stop sign.”
She says she yelled out to the driver that she ran through the stop sign - and that’s when things escalated.
She explained, “They whipped their car around got out of their car and came after me and I saw she had brass knuckles and a knife out.”
The dog walker says she had a bad feeling when she saw the knife and decided to record the incident.
“She hit me with her phone twice. She hit me once on the side of the head she tried to hit my phone out of my hand more than once she punched me in the neck, which thankfully it wasn’t the knife I thought it was. I immediately grabbed my neck like I had my throat slit,” she said.
Fortunately, it wasn’t but she says there is a small knick on her chest. She says it’s the emotional damage that’s been really difficult.
She said, “I just keep reliving it in my head I haven’t been sleeping I’m just like have a non-stop headache. I think I’m just in shock that something like that even happened to me. "
Tanner Fitzgerald of Lawrenceville said, “It surprises me in a sense but given some experiences with cars and pedestrians it doesn’t totally shock me.”
Neighbors who live on 44th Street say while they’ve never experienced that level of violence - they too have had issues with road rage incidents here.
Fitzgerald said, “A woman starts honking behind you and then she followed me, my wife and my daughter around the block for three laps honking, yelling.”
Pittsburgh Police have the video and are investigating. They say charges against the driver haven’t been filed yet
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