[Watch] Jeep Wrangler driver rams through construction zone, nearly kills flagger
Before you look up “construction flagger,” here’s the definition from the internet: a person who controls traffic through construction sites and in roadway work zones. They can use signs, flags, and hand signals to keep drivers safe and ensure traffic is moving safely through the zone. They’re trained and certified to do so.
However, a Jeep driver in Oregon decided they knew better than a construction flagger, as shown by a viral video posted by Pave Pro Asphalt Solvent on TikTok (@pavepro_asphaltsolvent). The driver, who looked to be elderly, decided he had more important places to be than stuck in traffic.
Instead of heeding the “slow” sign the flagger was holding, he chose to ignore it. It was 100% a jerk move. Someone recorded the Jeep heading straight for the construction flagger who was urging him to stop.
If you assumed he kept going, you’d be right. His Jeep Wrangler made contact with the flagger, and he just kept motoring forward.
The construction flagger was in extreme danger
The video showed the Wrangler pushing the frantic flagger down the road, nearly pulling him underneath the off-roader. If he had been pulled underneath the Jeep, he would have been seriously injured.
Instead, the flagger was light on his feet and was able to skirt around to the side of the Jeep, blazing its own trail.
The flagger, obviously frustrated, slams the “Slow” sign onto the hood of the Wrangler as it seizes the moment and accelerates forward.
The video stops as the Jeep driver speeds away from the scene.
Viewers were stunned by the Wrangler driver’s actions
“That’s 100% considered attempted murder,” wrote a viewer, earning nearly 40,000 likes. “You are trying to run a person over with a vehicle.”
Other people couldn’t help but point out the incriminating information the video captured.
“License plate, description of the driver—call police immediately. Assault with a deadly weapon, failure to comply with a traffic control device (the flagger), and running a stop sign,” they wrote.
A construction flagger said he’d dealt with the same but issued a harsher punishment.
“I had a driver try that with me once; I drove the sign into his radiator,” they responded.
