A pair of motorcyclists from Qualicum Bay are warning fellow motorists of a man driving a blue Mercedes, after they claim he nearly hit them on Highway 19.
A confrontation occurred afterward said Roxanne Rose-Bouchard, who posted on her Facebook page Monday, Sept. 3 that a man driving a blue Mercedes “purposely came within a few inches of us (she and her husband, Trent Bouchard) at a high rate of speed on the Inland Island Highway between Qualicum Beach and Horne Lake at approximately 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2nd.”
“It was terrifying,” wrote Rose-Bouchard.
In an interview, she said she and her husband, Trent Bouchard, were driving in the slow lane, with no other traffic around them when the blue Mercedes quickly appeared behind them.
“So close,” she said. “He was playing a game, and he came to the side of me… and then around my husband, and his car actually grazed the knee brace on my husband’s leg as he went past.”
She estimates the man was driving 180 km/h, and quickly disappeared up the highway.
The pair were surprised to find the driver once again driving past their house, she said.
“We blocked his way out and Trent started yelling at him that he could have killed us. The man got out of his car and they started fighting,” she said in the Facebook post.
The Oceanside RCMP are in the process of investigating and gathering evidence on the incident, said Cpl. Jesse Foreman. “No charges have been recommended as of yet, however, RCMP believe they have identified a suspect in the matter,” he said.
Rose-Bouchard said that, in 20 years of riding motorcycles, this is the worst confrontation she’s had.
“It could have been a very different outcome… I just wanted people to know that he’s ou there, and if you see that car, be careful.
Rose-Bouchard’s post has garnered 218 comments and 898 shares as of the morning of Sept. 7.
