Route 13 Road-Rage Dispute Ends With Driver Ramming Car, Pinning Woman, Cops Say

A man was arrested after he allegedly used his truck to push another driver’s car and pinned her between the two vehicles during a road-rage confrontation last month.

Theodore Kelly, 64, of Middletown Township, is charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment after the Friday, June 26, incident on Route 13 in Tullytown Borough.

An off-duty Tullytown Borough police officer, who was stopped at a red light while heading to work, witnessed a crash around 1:30 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Route 13, between the Levittown Train Station and Fallsington Avenue, and radioed dispatchers. He stopped to assist, police said.

According to court papers, the rolling road-rage dispute escalated after the woman sat at a green light for 10 to 15 seconds.

Kelly allegedly used his truck to push the woman’s car approximately 100 yards down Route 13, police said.

After the car was pushed, the woman exited her car, began recording Kelly with her phone, and swung a can with a hose at his truck, cracking the truck’s windshield, police said.

Kelly then drove forward, struck the woman, and pinned her between his truck and her vehicle, police said.

The woman’s 14-year-old son was in the passenger seat of her car during the incident, police said.

Kelly reportedly admitted to pushing the car and pinning the woman.

The truck driver reversed his vehicle to free her before an ambulance arrived, police said.

The woman, who told the responding officer she could not feel her legs, was transported by ambulance to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital in Philadelphia, police said. An update on her medical condition was not immediately available.

Kelly was preliminarily arraigned by on-call District Judge Lisa Gaier, who set bail at 10 percent of $50,000. Court records state Kelly was released the following day after posting bail.

Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.