Crime & Safety

Driver Slaps Another Driver in the Face for Tailgating

According to a police report, a driver got out of his vehicle and hit another driver in the face for tailgating.

were dispatched to Kmart Wednesday, August 22 on the report of a road rage incident that just occurred at .

According to the complainant, Daniel Fort, 23 of Langhorne, he was following a vehicle on Brownsville Road toward Old Street Road. At the light near Angela's Pizza II, a male in his late 40s with a beard jumped out of his vehicle and walked to Fort's vehicle.

Fort stated that the actor opened his driver's side door, yelled at him to "stop (expletive) tailgating me" and struck Fort. The complainant said that the man then got back into his vehicle and drove away.

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The actor's vehicle was stopped on Mallard Road and the man was identified as Stephen Mills, 53 of Feasterville. He stated that Fort was tailgating him from E. Bristol Road all the way down to Brownsville Road to Angela's Pizza II. Mills said that he could not see Fort's headlights because he was following so closely and he was swerving back and forth behind him. 

Mills said that he got out of his vehicle at the light, walked over to Fort, yelled at him for tailgating and admitted to slapping him. Fort admitted to tailgating Mills.

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Mills will be cited for summary harassment and Fort will be cited for following too closely.


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