Driver charged after violent road rage in McDonald’s drive-thru, California cops say
A driver who turned violent after accusing a woman of cutting her in a California McDonald’s drive-thru line has been arrested, police said.
Rhyan Hodge, 29, of Bay Point, California, was arrested on March 1 after turning herself in to police, the Richmond Police Department said in a Facebook post.
Hodge is accused of attacking a woman in the McDonald’s parking lot and drive-thru line in Richmond on Feb. 5, police said.
Authorities were not able to find Hodge immediately after the attack.
The woman recorded the incident as the driver yelled at her and then threw items at her car.
“You should have never cut!” the suspect identified as Hodge is heard yelling in the video.
The two-minute video of part of their interaction shows the woman, who had children in the car, start to get out of her vehicle, the video shows.
Then the driver is seen ramming into the woman’s car.
Once the video ends, the woman gets out of her car to confront the driver.
Hodge is accused of striking the woman and dragging her on the hood of her car for about 150 feet until she was thrown off, police said.
“I told her, ‘Stop, you can’t go anywhere,’ and that’s when she went straight at me,” the woman told KPIX-TV. “I was able to hold onto the hood of her car and my legs were dangling off the vehicle, I was holding on, and she just took me out of the parking lot … It was terrifying.”
Police said Hodge also got out of the car and punched the woman while she was on the ground.
The woman’s children are still shaken by the attack.
“I’m shaken by what my babies went through,” she told KGO. “That they’re still traumatized. My youngest, who is 3, he keeps repeating, ‘The bad lady is going to break our windows, the bad lady is going to come get me and break the windows!’”
Hodge was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, child endangerment, assault likely to cause great bodily injury and leaving the scene of an accident.
Anyone with information on this incident can contact detective Orlando Guzman at 510-965-4966 or email oguzman@richmondpd.net. The anonymous tip line can be reached at 510-307-8177.
This story was originally published March 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM with the headline "Driver charged after violent road rage in McDonald’s drive-thru, California cops say."
