A late-night road dispute in San Antonio took a violent turn Saturday when a driver made a decision that millions of frustrated motorists consider every day, and paid for it with a stab wound. The incident unfolded just before 11:30 p.m. near the 12000 block of Perrin Beitel on the city’s Northeast Side, where San Antonio Police Department officers were called to the scene of what appeared to be a road rage confrontation. The victim had pulled over to face the other driver directly, and the situation escalated fast.
That face-to-face exchange ended with the man taking a stab wound to the abdomen. He was transported to a local hospital with injuries that, fortunately, were not life-threatening. No other injuries were reported, and police took the other individual into custody. The identities of those involved have not been released, and investigators were still gathering information in the immediate aftermath.
What makes this incident worth paying attention to is not that it is especially rare, but precisely because it is not. The impulse to pull over and “sort things out” is one most drivers have felt at some point, usually after being cut off, tailgated, or nearly sideswiped by someone who appeared to be auditioning for a demolition derby. Giving in to that impulse, though, is where things tend to go sideways in a hurry…