0 Driver threatens Charlotte woman with gun on busy Independence Boulevard

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Kelly Wiggins said she was a victim of road rage for about 1.5 miles Thursday morning on East Independence Boulevard.

Wiggins said a man started driving very close behind her and then beeped, flipped her off and cursed at her in the middle of morning rush-hour traffic.

“I was trying to get up so I can get over and this car just comes up behind me, all up on my butt and I'm, like, 'Dude, what did I do?'”

Wiggins said the man driving behind her was so enraged that he pointed a gun at her.

“It was really crazy,” Wiggins said. “I've never experienced road rage that bad.”

Wiggins doesn’t know what triggered the other driver's behavior and was shocked by his actions.

“It's just crazy to me that people get this way over driving,” Wiggins said.

She said, at one point, she slammed on her breaks to get him off her tail and exchanged a few choice with him.

That's when, she said, she saw a gun through her rearview mirror.

“He had it pointed and he just went down like that,” Wiggins said.

Wiggins filed a police report but didn’t jot down his license plate number.

"I did not get the license plate number and that is what is, like, ah, because he would be in jail right now if I would have gotten the license plate number,” Wiggins said.

The man could be charged with assault by pointing a gun.

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