A sniper wounds five motorists on a Kentucky highway. In Stockton, a man was left comatose by a rock thrown from Country Club Boulevard on Interstate 5, an Amazon driver was killed in a shooting at Interstate 5 in Lathrop, and a Stockton woman was killed in an Oakland party bus shooting on Interstate 580.
In Colorado, a teenager kills a woman after hurling a rock through her windshield . A family drive through the Navajo Nation near New Mexico turns into a nightmare when a motorist inexplicably pursues the car, guns blazing. A 41-year-old Lathrop man was killed in a 2022 attack that spared his 3-year-old daughter on Interstate 5 and California State Route 120.
The lure of the open road is a quintessentially American draw. But a drive can easily take a turn for the worse and outbursts of violence on the highway leave indelible images of slain motorists and destruction – and also undermine the feeling of safety on the 48,500 miles of interstate highways where American motorists drive the most, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics and state crime reports.