A Massachusetts man seen in a now-viral video speeding down an interstate as another man clung to the hood of his car following a road rage incident has been ordered to steer clear of him. Mark Fitzgerald was filmed Friday driving on Interstate 90, about 20 miles west of Boston, with Richard Kamrowski gripping the hood of the car. He traveled approximately three miles before he was stopped. Both men appeared in Waltham District Court on Monday. Fitzgerald, 37, pleaded not guilty to charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, negligent operation and leaving the scene of a crash causing property damage. He was released on a $500 cash bail and ordered to have no contact with Kamrowski. He is due back in court on March 13, a court clerk said. Police told NBC Boston that Richard Kamrowski, 65, jumped onto the hood of a white Infiniti SUV that belonged to Mark Fitzgerald, 37, after a verbal altercation over a minor traffic accident on Interstate 90 about 20 miles west of Boston. Raymond Fuschetti / NBC Boston 10 Kamrowski, 65, also pleaded not guilty to a disorderly conduct charge and was released on his own recognizance. Kamrowski said the altercation started when Fitzgerald allegedly drifted into his lane and hit his side mirror, according to the criminal complaint. Kamrowski told police that he wasn't sure if the mirror was broken, and wanted to exchange information with Fitzgerald, but he refused to pull over. He told police that traffic was moving slow on the interstate so he was able to catch up with Fitzgerald. Kamrowski said he got out of his car and walked up to Fitzgerald's SUV and once again tried to exchange information. When Fitzgerald refused, Kamrowski reached into the car and grabbed a metal water bottle that was on the front passenger seat, according to the complaint. Kamrowski then walked in front of the car. When Fitzgerald went to drive away, Kamrowski said he jumped on the hood to avoid getting hit. He said he held onto the hood while Fitzgerald was driving because he thought he would die if he let go. Fitzgerald, however, gave authorities a slightly different version of events and blamed the minor accident on Kamrowski. Fitzgerald said Kamrowski hit his SUV while switching lanes but Fitzgerald didn't want to call police or exchange information so he kept driving. As he was sitting in traffic, Fitzgerald said Kamrowski walked up to his car and the two "exchanged some words," according to the complaint. Fitzgerald said he tried to drive away and Kamrowski jumped on the hood and used the water bottle to smash the windshield. Fitzgerald told police that he stopped his car several times and told Kamrowski to get off, but he refused to budge so he kept driving. Fitzgerald said he was in fear of his safety during the ordeal, the complaint states. Police said Fitzgerald’s speed reached as high as 70 mph during the incident. No one was injured. "I thought he was going to run over me," Kamrowski told the NBC affiliate Friday. "I don't think he stopped, he kept going fast, slow, fast, slow, to get me to slide off.” Other drivers on the road forced Fitzgerald to stop, with one car pulling in front of Fitzgerald’s SUV so he couldn’t leave. "I was assaulted. That's it," Kamrowski told NBC Boston. "I just kept telling him, 'Stop the car, stop the car,' and he wouldn't stop."<doc-sep>A sideswipe 20 miles outside of Boston led to a crazy road rage incident that didn’t end until someone pulled out a gun. After a minor traffic accident, there was lots of arguing and 37-year-old Mark Fitzgerald apparently had enough. He tried to drive away but that’s when Richard Kamrowski, 65, jumped onto the hood of the white SUV. Fitzgerald then seemed to think the best thing to do was just to keep driving with the 65-year-old hanging onto his hood. Advertisement Fitzgerald drove “a very significant distance,” as police put it, at speeds as high as 70 miles per hour. Fitzgerald managed to make it around three miles down the Massachusetts Turnpike before other drivers on the road managed to stop him. But doing so was apparently not easy as a driver had to place his car in front of Fitzgerald’s SUV and another had to point a gun in order to get him to get out of the car, according to video by NBC’s Boston affiliate. Advertisement Advertisement Witnessed some intense #RoadRage on the #MassPike yesterday to say the least. Since I can’t settle on one of the witty captions I had in mind I’ll let @DMX handle it for me 😂 Welcome home! 🐾 #Boston #GoPats #Leggo! pic.twitter.com/sMWRoHIGlN — Ray Fuschetti (@RayFuschetti) January 26, 2019 “I thought he was going to run over me,” Kamrowski said. “I don’t think he stopped, he kept going fast, slow, fast, slow, to get me to slide off.” But police ended up arresting both men. Fitzgerald was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, negligent operaton, and leaving the scene of a crash while Kamrowski was charged with disorderly conduct.<doc-sep>They really drove each other insane. Two hotheads are facing criminal charges in a crazy road rage incident that left one driver clinging to the hood of an SUV — for more than three miles — as it sped 70 mph along a Massachusetts highway. The chaotic scene caught on video shows Richard Kamrowski holding onto Mark Fitzgerald’s white Infiniti for dear life as it barreled along the Massachusetts Turnpike on Friday, NBC10 Boston reported. Police say Kamrowski, 65, jumped on the hood of Fitzgerald’s vehicle after the two motorists were involved in a minor sideswipe accident on the westbound side of Interstate 90 near Interstate 95 in Weston. “I felt that he bumped me, and I kind of, you know, was pushed up,” Kamrowski told NBC10 Boston. Fitzgerald, 37, took off and tried to toss Kamrowski off the car by speeding as fast as 70 and slowing down, police said. At one point, he even turned on his windshield wipers. “I thought he was going to run over me,” Kamrowski said. “I don’t think he stopped. He kept going fast, slow, fast, slow, to get me to slide off.” Video taken by passing drivers shows the SUV with a cracked windshield. Fitzgerald only stopped when other drivers intervened and boxed in his vehicle on the busy road, authorities said. One motorist was caught on camera pointing a gun at Fitzgerald. The resident of Lynn was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of a property damage accident. Kamrowski was charged with disorderly conduct and malicious damage to a motor vehicle. Both will be arraigned Monday in Waltham District Court. “I was assaulted. That’s it. I just kept telling him, ‘Stop the car, stop the car,’ and he wouldn’t stop,” said Kamrowski, who claims Fitzgerald swerved into his lane and scraped his car. The armed driver was later found to have a license to carry and was not charged, CBS Boston reported.<doc-sep>“If someone was attacking me, if someone smashed my windshield, had already tried to attack me from both sides of my car, I think my first thought would be, ‘Let’s get out of here.’ I think everybody reasonably acts to protect their own safety,” Chinman said. “I was astonished that a man would jump onto the hood of a moving car when there was, by all accounts, extremely minor contact between the cars before that.”<doc-sep>
A road rage incident accelerated quickly on Friday afternoon when a sideswipe led a Massachusetts man to hold onto the hood of a speeding SUV for approximately three miles on the state turnpike. Police told NBC Boston that Richard Kamrowski, 65, jumped onto the hood of a white Infiniti SUV that belonged to Mark Fitzgerald, 37, after a verbal altercation over a minor traffic accident on Interstate 90 about 20 miles west of Boston. Fitzgerald apparently had enough of the two men’s confrontation at some point after their collision and attempted to drive away, but Kamrowski then jumped onto his hood and held on while Fitzgerald drove for “a very significant distance,” police said. Though Fitzgerald pushed his small SUV up to speeds as high as 70 mph during the incident, no one was injured. The driver was eventually stopped by others on the roadway, one going so far as to point a gun at the SUV to convince him to stop the car, NBC Boston reported. "I thought he was going to run over me," Kamrowski told the NBC affiliate. "I don't think he stopped, he kept going fast, slow, fast, slow, to get me to slide off." Police arrested both men: Fitzgerald was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, negligent operation and leaving the scene of a crash causing property damage and Kamrowsi faces disorderly conduct charges. "I was assaulted. That's it," Kamrowski told NBC Boston. "I just kept telling him, 'Stop the car, stop the car,' and he wouldn't stop." NBC Boston was unable to get a statement from Fitzgerald about the incident, as he ran away from their camera and jumped into another car, slamming the door behind him.