Watch live at 2:30 p.m. PST: CHP will provide updates on suspect's identity and charges filed in road rage arrest at a news conference airing live in this article.
An arrest has been made in a dangerous caught-on-camera road rage incident between a motorcyclist and a driver on a Southern California freeway that led to a chain-reaction crash in 2017.
The California Highway Patrol announced an arrest in the June 2017 wreck Wednesday, but would not discuss who the suspect was. CHP was to hold a news conference later in the day, discussing the motorist's identity and charges filed.
The crash occurred on the 14 Freeway near Newhall in Santa Clarita, sending an innocent person to the hospital, authorities said.
The crash occurred before 6 a.m. on southbound lanes. A passenger who shot the video said he started recording when a gray sedan inadvertently cut off a passing motorcyclist.
"Words went back and forth," he told NBC4 in 2017.
The motorcyclist zooms up to the driver's side of the sedan and kicks the side of the vehicle. The sedan veered left, pinching the biker to the center divider before it swerved and crashed into the wall, hitting and flipping a pickup truck over on its roof. The motorcyclist zooms past the collision.
The man in the truck was sent to the hospital and is expected to recover, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Officials initially were looking for the biker and said they were investigating the crash as a road rage incident and a possible hit-and run.
"Obviously it was a road rage incident. He was kicking the vehicle. We have to get a statement, see what's going on," said CHP officer Josh Greengard in 2017.
The person who recorded the video immediately turned in the footage to the CHP.
"The old man who had nothing to do with it was the one that got hurt," he said. "Hopefully by doing this, it can help him out."
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