Video captures road rage incident in Southern California where a motorcyclist is dragged

In Riverside, California, a motorcyclist’s helmet camera captured a frightening incident of road rage. An angry driver knocked the motorcyclist off his bike and proceeded to drag him down the street.

“The whole ordeal lasted only a few seconds but it felt like an eternity. As I started slipping, I caught a glimpse of the car’s undercarriage. My emotions shifted from anger to fear,” recounted the motorcycle rider.

He didn’t want to give his name but says that it all happened Tuesday afternoon.

According to the motorcyclist, the incident began when he was maneuvering to the front of an intersection. Suddenly, the driver of a black Nissan cut him off abruptly, compelling him to navigate around the vehicle.

“So I filtered to the front, and yeah I got mad, I’m shaking my head, and I looked back, and I see him roll down the window.. and I see him saying something. So I get off the bike and say ‘what’s going on, what’s your issue?’ And he says ‘why are you shaking your head at me?’ and I said ‘it’s because you cut over as I was coming up,’ so he says ‘well you’re behind me, I’m first,’ and I said ‘that’s not how it works, if you’re that upset about that, go seek therapy.'”

However, the incident doesn’t end there. The motorcyclist continued onward and stopped again at another light. He says the driver of the Nissan chased him down.

“I look back, just in time to see the front end of his car squeezing between both cars, he rear-ends me, knocks me off the bike and then floors it over me,” he recalled. “He dragged me. I felt like he was stepping on the gas. I’m not sure how fast he was going. When we finally stopped, I got up and ran to the sidewalk, and he fled the scene.”

Riverside police said 32-year-old Gary Delandro eventually turned himself in. Delandro faces attempted murder charges. His bail is set at $1 million.

The motorcyclist suffered moderate injuries, including burn injuries to his backside and staples below his knee. His jacket and backpack were shredded in the incident.

“With people like that, they don’t care about anyone else,” the victim said. “He sure as hell didn’t care about me but the people around him, the people he had to cut through, those are dangerous people. I know there’s a large community of people who dislike the fact that we split lanes, but there is a safety measure to it, there’s a reason why California permits it, there’s a safe way to do it, there’s a not smart way to do it, but at the end of the day — it shouldn’t warrant trying to kill somebody.”