A 71-year-old woman was arrested for her first OWI after allegedly hitting a person with her vehicle because of a road-rage incident that started on the Beltline.
Shortly after noon on Thursday, police were dispatched to the off-ramp of the westbound Beltline onto Gammon Road on Madison's West Side for a woman hitting a person with her vehicle, police spokesperson Stephanie Fryer said in a statement.
Officers discovered the incident was the culmination of a road-rage spat that had started on the Beltline, where the woman and another driver had been brake-checking and swerving between one another.
Both drivers then proceeded to get off the Beltline at the Gammon Road exit, Fryer said. When a passenger in the other car got out to take pictures of the woman's car, she allegedly stepped on her gas pedal and hit him, Fryer added.
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Fryer did not disclose whether the person who was hit suffered any injuries.
The woman was tentatively charged with her first OWI, as well as second-degree recklessly endangering safety and having open intoxicants in her car. She has not been formally charged, online court records show.
