Cameras caught three men throwing punches in a road rage brawl in the middle of a busy California freeway, FOX 11 reported Wednesday.
The melee started after an apparent fender bender around 2:00 p.m. Tuesday on a freeway in Santa Monica, according to FOX 11.
“I came upon this father and son beating this guy over a fender bender,” FOX 11 viewer Thiago Oliveira, who shared the video, told the outlet. “He claimed that they had hit him and they’re denying it.” (RELATED: Three People Beat Truck Driver With Hammer On Side Of Highway, Police Say)
The video shows a man in a red shirt pummeling a man in a green shirt, who is being held from behind by a younger man along the highway’s median strip guardrail. The man in the red shirt appears to land several right hands to the head. The green shirted man then breaks free, lands a quick left jab to the face of the younger man and winds up with a wild left haymaker that misses and sends himself to the ground. The man in the red shirt then lunges and tries to kick the man in the green shirt but also misses.
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A woman can be seen in the background filming the fight and apparently trying to come to the aid of the man in the green shirt.
Oliveira said that’s when he decided to step in.
“I was like, I’m not going to get close until I realized they don’t have any guns. And I won’t get killed over this thing. But once I realized I was safe, I went over,” he said. “I said, ‘Hey, guys, listen, we can either call the cops right now, or we can go, because there’s 50 cars behind us,’ so everybody just left.”
Oliveira told FOX11 that “they were both terrible fighters, so nobody got bloodied or injured or anything,” adding that this was a typical incident for Los Angeles.
“I’ve lived in a lot of places in the world and I’ve never seen this, other than LA,” he said.