HOUSTON – Tensions rising.
Tempers flaring.
It happens every day on Houston roadways.
This is a case that got way out of hand.
One driver followed the other to South Gessner Road near Ella Lee Lane, and that's where the confrontation turned into a road-rage attack.
One of the drivers said said the other man was the aggressor and hit him with his truck.
The attack put Tim Harriman in the hospital for six days.
He said the incident began when he decided to steer his motorcycle around a pickup truck that had stopped on the Beltway 8 feeder road near Richmond Avenue.
"I assumed he was texting or talking or whatever," Harriman said. "So, I took the right turn between him and passenger side of the vehicle and he took offense to that."
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The move set off a 10-minute chase as Harriman attempted to put distance between himself and the angry man in the white pickup truck.
"He cut off other traffic and tried to chase me down, and pin me between other cars when he caught up with me. He was driving erratically," Harriman said.
The chase ended when Harriman ducked into an apartment building driveway on Gessner, only to discover there was no exit. When he turned around to leave, the truck pulled in behind him.
"He came straight for me, like he was going to run me over head on," Harriman said. "So I tried to avoid him, go around him to the left and when I did that's when he hit the accelerator, and boned me."
Harriman's leg was crushed between his bike and the truck, and the trauma caused blood clots to form in his lungs. He's facing a long, painful recovery.
"This is crazy. Whatever I could have done wouldn't warrant what he did," he said. "I mean what could I do that would offend him in such a manner? I'm thinking I'm fortunate he didn't have a gun, 'cause I would have probably been shot."
