Indiana State Police Trooper Philip Hensley said just after 2 p.m., they received a 911 call about a sideswiped crash on the interstate. He said both a Chrysler minivan and a Ford Bronco were traveling northbound, and were speeding up, slowing down, and making hand gestures at each other. A dispatcher was on the phone with one of the drivers, and Hensley said they were trying to get that driver to pull over and check the damage to her Bronco. The victim then drove away from the scene and ended up at a gas station, Hensley said. EMS and other first responders responded to that location, and transported him to UofL Hospital. Since the woman in the Bronco was on the phone with 911 during the incident, Hensley said the dispatcher told her to stay there, put her gun away, and keep her hands where police can see them as troopers were on their way to her. "When you've got a road rage situation, two vehicles sideswiped, the simple thing to do: just stop," Hensley said. "Just pull over on the shoulder, check your damage. Nobody likes to be in a crash, its a very uncomfortable and frustrating thing for anyone, certainly. But you have to deal with it." "Maybe be like 'Oh, hey what's your insurance?," Lee said. "That's it. You don't have to pull a gun on nobody. That's incredibly nuts." Lee was at the Shell gas station off exit 19 on I-65, where the gunshot victim drove to for help just hours before. "We all know everybody around here," Lee said. "It's just really bizarre. You never hear anything like that happening here, so the fact that it happened here of all places."
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