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This hard-to-stomach video of a car chasing a woman and knocking her down was a case of a road rage incident from 2022 in New Jersey.
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India Today Fact Check
This video shows a road rage incident that took place in New Jersey in 2022.
A horrifying video of a woman being repeatedly run over by a car is making the rounds on social media platforms. In the video, the woman could be seen desperately trying to evade the vehicle as it accelerated which then ultimately rammed into her several times. Many social media users shared the video, claiming that a Kenyan man ran over his wife in Texas because she had kicked him out of his own house.
Sharing the clip on Twitter, one person wrote: “A Kenyan man ran down his wife, who kicked him out of his own house he bought abroad in Texas USA. There are a lot of such marital killings in the US daily due to fights relating to property. African women have turned into monsters.” An archived version of a similar post can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check found that this video showed a road rage incident that took place in New Jersey back in 2022. The story associated with the video is unfounded.
Our Probe
Reverse searching keyframes of the viral video led us to a video report about this incident, containing multiple videos shot from different angles. According to it, this video showed a violent road rage attack in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The suspect, identified by the police as 56-year-old Vincent Jean was charged with first-degree attempted murder and third-degree assault by auto.
Using this clue, we found several media reports about the incident from April 2022. According to reports, a man named Vincent Jean ran over 23-year-old Morgan Scott three times on April 12, 2022. This incident followed a minor collision between the two, during which Scott decided to take pictures of the license plate of Jean's vehicle, triggering the attack.
Notably, Scott miraculously survived the brutal attack with fractures, lacerations, and broken bones all over the body. Jean, on the other hand, had reportedly claimed that he never saw the woman, denied being involved in the accident, and asserted that his car had slipped.
Quoting Scott’s family, a report by Dailymail stated that the attack was not the result of any domestic dispute, adding that the man was a complete stranger to the victim. Scott’s family had also set up a GoFundMe page for her medical costs, where a video of Scott recovering and getting better from her injuries was shared on September 7, 2022.
Thus, it is clear that the narrative passed off with the viral video of a horrific car attack is baseless.
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