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Seattle driver arrested in snowball road rage incident

Feb 11, 2019, 7:33 AM

Seattle police arrested a woman they say tried to run over a group of people having a snowball fight.

The incident was caught on camera.

The person who took the video says it happened in the Capitol Hill neighborhood Sunday at about 8 p.m.

They say the woman turned around after someone hit her Jeep with a snowball on Thomas Street, nearly hitting pedestrians. Video shows people running to avoid the vehicle.

After getting stuck in the snow, she put her keys between her fingers and tried to fight someone.

Police were called, and an officer gave who her a field sobriety test said she was high on marijuana.

 

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