2013-04-24

By David Chang

|  Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013  |  Updated 11:38 PM EDT

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NBC10.com - Denise Nakano

A violent case of road rage during the morning commute in Chester County. Police say a man punched a woman in the face before he fled the scene.

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Gail Edgell believes she's lucky to be alive.

"I honestly believe if he had a gun or a knife I'd be dead," she said. "That's how angry he was."

Edgell, 44, was on her way to work on Monday, April 15 in Exton. She says she pulled up to a red light on the off-ramp where the Route 30 bypass meets Route 100. In doing so, she passed an older blue Dodge Ram 50 pickup truck. That's when, Edgell says, the driver of that truck became enraged.

"He clocked me," she said. "It certainly stunned me."

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The man allegedly walked to Edgell’s window, punched her in the head and then stole her prescription glasses. Police say the man then went back into his car and fled southbound on Route 100, taking the Pottstown Pike exit ramp towards West Chester

"For this person to get out and confront her at a red light and then, unprovoked, punch her and take her glasses, it doesn't make sense whatsoever," said Detective Scott Pezick of the West Whiteland Township Police Department.

The suspect is described as a 25 to 30 year-old man standing 5-foot-10 and weighing 200 pounds with light brown or dirty blond hair down to his shoulders. Police also say he was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, brown Carhartt pants and tan boots.

Edgell says she wants police to catch him before he hurts someone else.

"He's on the edge of driving someone off the road and killing someone in some other manner," she said. "We need to get him off the street."

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