Couple driving from Oakland to Pleasanton were caught in a shootout between two cars on a highway.

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A California couple driving from Oakland to Pleasanton were caught in a shootout between two cars on a highway. A bullet narrowly missed them after coming in a window.

A person is shot and wounded or killed in a road rage incident every 17 hours in the US.


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2:17 PM · Jul 8, 2022

We don't have to live like this.

[Phoenix61]

1. I'm curious what foreign admissions to US colleges are looking like. nt

[vanlassie]

3. Huh? Why do you ask?

[Phoenix61]

5. Umm, because parents from nations that don't have

mass shootings on a daily basis or drivers getting caught in the middle of a road rage incident may not want to send their little darlings to a place that does.

[Sympthsical]

2. My partner drives this route frequently for work

So I'm thrilled to read this.

Unfortunately, this is not as rare as it ought to be. Some months back, a one year-old was killed by bullets flying across a freeway around Oakland.

https://ktla.com/news/california/family-ids-1-year-old-boy-as-child-fatally-hit-by-stray-bullet-on-oakland-freeway/

Now consider how many aren't hitting people.

[dalton99a]

4. "Gang members were actually following each other up onto the freeways to do the shootings"

“Gang members were actually following each other up onto the freeways to do the shootings because they knew how challenging those investigations are,” Knox said. “Witnesses are traveling at like 65 miles an hour so they’re miles down the freeway by the time we even know we have a crime and finding the exact shooting location to recover casings and things was very challenging.”

https://ktla.com/news/california/family-ids-1-year-old-boy-as-child-fatally-hit-by-stray-bullet-on-oakland-freeway/

[Demovictory9]

6. Yikes..glad she is ok