A woman was taken to the hospital after a road rage incident in Fresno on Friday morning.
Officers responded at 5:31 a.m. to Marty and Valentine avenues, where they found a woman with injuries.
She was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition.
Police said the woman was driving northbound on Marty Avenue when she became involved in a road rage incident with a man driving another vehicle in the same direction. Both drivers cut each other off.
The woman pulled over near Valentine and Marty avenues. She walked toward the rear passenger side of her vehicle when the other vehicle sped up from behind and struck the right passenger side of her car, knocking her to the ground.
Police said the man left the scene and headed north.
Investigators are treating the incident as an intentional act of assault with a deadly weapon involving a vehicle.
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