Update, 9/5/18: A D.C. judge ordered Mariana Silver, the woman arrested for allegedly smashing the windows of a Greyhound bus and running over its driver last week, to remain in jail on Tuesday. The judge said she was a “danger” to the community, according to The Washington Post.

The Post reports that Silver’s attorney said she had had an “adverse” reaction to medication, and she should instead go to a psychiatric facility. The judge disagreed, and ordered Silver to remain in jail until her next hearing on September 18.

Update, 8/31/18: Police arrested 20-year-old Mariana Silver on Friday evening in connection with the incident. She has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon… the car.

Original: A viral video making the rounds on Twitter and Facebook surely has earned a spot in the annals of the wildest road rage incidents known to the District of Columbia. The footage starts with a woman smashing the driver’s side window and side view mirror of a Greyhound bus on a busy road in Northeast, and that’s just the beginning.

The interaction began around 6 p.m. on Thursday when the driver of a gold Audi tried to aggressively pass in front of the Greyhound, apparently sideswiping a Volvo in the process, according to a police report. At a traffic light at the intersection of Bladensburg Road and Montana Avenue, the driver of the Volvo confronted the Audi driver and an argument ensued, police said. The bus driver apparently got involved, too.

“You’re a crazy driver, you need to get off the road,” the bus driver told the woman, according to the police report. The police narrative continues: the Audi driver pulled out a baseball bat out of her trunk and proceeded to crack the bus windshield; then she went back to her trunk, grabbed a car jack, and starting hitting the driver’s side of the bus.

That’s where the footage starts.

The camera pans and we see a man in a blue shirt—the apparent bus driver—standing in front of the woman’s Audi. After smashing the side of the bus, the woman gets into her car and hits the gas for a second or two, propelling the car forward. Then she abruptly brakes, gets out of the car, and attempts to physically pull the bus driver off the hood.

But the bus driver is determined to block her path. As he calls 911 while standing in front of the car, she again gets in the driver’s seat and plows into him.

Bystanders keep warning the bus driver to stand back (“so you don’t get hurt!”). The incident ends with him jumping on the car as it pulls away, twisting off the hood, and landing face down in the middle of the intersection.

Shocked onlookers, their voices rising several octaves, ask what in the world he was thinking.

“She was going to get away with it!” the bus driver says, surprisingly calmly.

He suffered bruising on his left elbow and pains in his hip, according to police. The report lists charges of “leaving after colliding – property damage,” “assault with a dangerous weapon,” and “destruction of property.”

The case remains under investigation, though D.C. police announced Friday afternoon that they have identified the woman in the footage.

The video ends as the unidentified person behind a camera tells a responding officer: “I have everything recorded.”

This story has been updated to reflect that police have identified the woman in the video.

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