Road Rage Incident Exasperating, Then You Learn A Sad Backstory

A video going viral shows a Marine near Camp Pendleton going absolutely bonkers with rage following a fender bender on a highway.

A still from the Marine road rage incident shows
the Marine outside the car while the victim/driver
sits stone faced in the vehicle.

As people sit silently in the car that rear ended the Marine vehicle, you see the Marine just totally losing his shit.

News reports from ABC 10 out of San Diego indicate the Marine might have caused the crash by slamming on his brakes abruptly in the early stages of the road rage incident.

At first, you think, "What a moron." as he goes on and on. But there's something off, even more so than you'd see in a standard issue adult temper tantrum. His voice rises. Amid his rage, you feel like he's going to cry, that maybe there's an element of fear in his incoherent anger.

The television station also reported the Marine might have PTSD. ABC 10 interviewed Psychologist Dr. Michael Mantell, who said he thought the Marine might have something called "intermittent explosive disorder."

"It's where you have these explosive, unpremeditated outburts of anger Mantell told 10News. "These are people who thrown things, they break things, they inflict harm on others.
......PTSD is never a defense or an excuse said Mantell. It may be an explanation."

Meanwhile, the unnamed, unseen woman in the car videoing this display is herself a Marine, injured in war, paralyzed from the waist down, according to media reports. The guy behind the wheel is her brother and caregiver.

The angry Marine, a Sargeant, has been charged by military police with communicating a threat, and more charges are possible, according to local media.

I was torn about showing all this because maybe it's a little exploitive. But boy, if any of what ABC 10 has been reporting about the people involved, it's clear the damage from war reaches far beyond Iraq and Afghanistan and lands on our doorstep in scary, unpredictable and sad ways.

Here's the video