Road Rage to Deadly Shooting: The Aubrey Bowlin Interview

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It was stop & go traffic. It wasn't like everyone in front of her was going 65. That would be a different story. If the top speed of everyone on the road is under 10 mph, you should have plenty of time to stop for any vehicle in front of you.

***EDIT: If safely able to do so, she should've split the lane and just left him in the rear with his panties in a wad.

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It was stop & go traffic. It wasn't like everyone in front of her was going 65. That would be a different story. If the top speed of everyone on the road is under 10 mph, you should have plenty of time to stop for any vehicle in front of you.

***EDIT: If safely able to do so, she should've split the lane and just left him in the rear with his panties in a wad.

She said she doesn't like to lane split and I'm not sure it's legal in WA but she said everyone does it. I would have just blasted the shoulder and got back into traffic when safe.

I can only assume from the interview, but when I hear a rider say they are leaving room to avoid a shift, I'm thinking she is disrupting the flow of caged traffic and thus he lost it. You let off the throttle on a bike, in 2-3 on most, and your engine brake is enough to require a hard brake in an SUV depending on the rager's following distance. He looks up and sees plenty of room and gets more aggressive.

I leave extra room behind a bike for this reason. But I shit you not, 9 out of 10 times a car/truck/SUV will fill that gap completely unconcerned with the following distance. Again, use the bike to get away from that and stay safe!

I want to be clear: Doesn't justify the assault one bit. He was 100% in the wrong for making this an altercation and won his prize.

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She said she doesn't like to lane split and I'm not sure it's legal in WA but she said everyone does it. I would have just blasted the shoulder and got back into traffic when safe.

I can only assume from the interview, but when I hear a rider say they are leaving room to avoid a shift, I'm thinking she is disrupting the flow of caged traffic and thus he lost it. You let off the throttle on a bike, in 2-3 on most, and your engine brake is enough to require a hard brake in an SUV depending on the rager's following distance. He looks up and sees plenty of room and gets more aggressive.

I leave extra room behind a bike for this reason. But I shit you not, 9 out of 10 times a car/truck/SUV will fill that gap completely unconcerned with the following distance. Again, use the bike to get away from that and stay safe!

I want to be clear: Doesn't justify the assault one bit. He was 100% in the wrong for making this an altercation and won his prize.

100% agree. I do see a lot of bikers ride recklessly and as a rider it frustrates the crap outta me. Many bikers fail to understand the point you mentioned about being turned into a grease spot by an SUV. It's happened, I'm sure many of us have seen the videos. Car vs. bike, car wins 99% of the time. A lot of people ride like they are invincible. I lost a friend who had that mentality.

It sounds like WA has a pretty serious road rage problem from what I've read. I'm glad this young lady is okay. One of the questions I had about this, was what was the suspect's wife doing the whole time this was going down? There really wasn't any mention of it.