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For at least the third time already this month, a road rage shooting has been reported on a major Philadelphia highway.
Around 3:45 a.m. Thursday, a driver from Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, reported being shot at after merging his Ford F-250 pickup truck from the Bridge Street on-ramp onto I-95 southbound, Pennsylvania State Police said.
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Bullets struck the truck several times, police said. The driver, however, wasn't hurt and was able to pull over and call police.
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The gunfire came from someone inside a gray Honda Civic, state police said.
This shooting came after Monday night's shooting along I-95 in South Philadelphia that left a person with a graze wound and Tuesday night's shooting along the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76), near 30th Street, that caused a driver to crash, according to police.
Anyone with information on the shootings can contact state police investigators at 215-452-5216.
There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia. Further information can be found here.
