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‘This is certainly unacceptable,’ 2 people caught fighting in heated road rage incident on Toronto highway

Videos of the incident show two people entangled and rolling on the highway in front of stopped traffic, fighting like they were involved in a wrestling match. (Courtesy: @401_da_sarpanch/Twitter)

Video has surfaced online of two people fighting in what looks like a wrestling match on a Toronto highway after getting into a heated road rage incident.

“You know you’re having a bad day when you find yourself rolling around on the highway,” Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said in a video posted to Twitter Thursday morning. 

On Tuesday at around 5 p.m., two vehicles stopped on Highway 401 at Leslie Avenue and started fighting “as a result of some sort of altercation,” according to Schmidt. 

Videos of the incident show two people entangled and rolling on the highway in front of stopped traffic, fighting like they were involved in a wrestling match. 

“Witnesses recorded it and also called police. Toronto PP (Provincial Police) responded to the area, (and) were unable to locate the vehicles as they had cleared by the time officers got to the scene,” he said. 

Schmidt said an officer spoke to one of the people involved who “admitted it was a road rage situation.”

“This is something that should never be happening. I don’t know what it was that led to this escalation. People may have a short fuse but this can turn violent, it can turn deadly, you don’t know what’s going to happen,” Schmidt said. 

“Please, if you’re going to get hot under the collar please don’t turn it into physical action and start looking for vigilante justice. This is certainly unacceptable anytime, anywhere,” he added. 

Schmidt said the driver was “cautioned” but did not say if any charges were laid. 

Anyone with information or dash camera footage is being asked to contact police. 

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