A viral video is currently surfacing on the internet of a nab shouting racial slurs at another driver before crashing his own vehicle on an East Bay highway was arrested Friday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
61-year-old Tracy Robert Blackwell was taken into custody around 12 p.m. in Newark after video began circulating on social media this week of him driving along Interstate 880, near the Hegenberger Road exit, and allegedly yelling racial slurs at another driver, authorities said.
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In the video you can see Blackwell attempting to ram his Jeep into the other car, before he lost control of his own vehicle and crashed into a wall on the right shoulder. The suspect can be heard shouting the n-word several times.
Additionally, Blackwell is a registered sex offender. He was convicted in 2001 of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14, according to Fox 2.
Now this isn’t the first time we seen some crazy things happen on the road. Back in March we reported on how a couple was arrested after crashing into cars on the road to get clicks on their Youtube channel. Christopher and Kimberly Phelps of Yucaipa were taken into custody over the scam. According to authorities, the couple ran a YouTube channel under the username BLU3 GHO57. The channel reportedly had 162 dash cam videos of incidents ranging from full-on collisions to road rage incidents. The couple posted all the videos while having their son in the car.
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Somehow, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department became aware of the channel, and it tipped off the state’s department of insurance. An investigation into the videos showed that it was a cash grab for insurance money. Of the 162 videos on the channel, authorities found that 23 videos were linked to 17 insurance claims by Christopher. The road rage incidents were a bit worse, as 42 of those appeared to be intentional acts by him.
It all hit the fan in February for the couple. County sheriffs were tipped off after Christopher allegedly caused another collision, this time involving a truck pulling a trailer. Authorities say he got in front of the vehicle and intentionally stopped for no reason, causing the truck to rear end him. And like clockwork, not long after the “accident,” a video of the incident was uploaded to their channel. Authorities responded to the area of the collision, investigating and questioning witnesses which eventually led to the couple’s arrest.