A Ford Mustang veered off an embankment and burst into flames in an unincorporated Waukegan Friday evening after an obvious highway rage incident.

An investigation revealed the driving force of the Mustang had been concerned in a site visitors altercation with a 40-year-old Gurnee man within the space of Wadsworth Street and Delany Street in Wadsworth, based on the Lake County sheriff’s workplace.

Throughout the struggle, Joseph Ebler, 28, of the 11300 block of West Wadsworth Street in Seashore Park, pulled out a pistol and threatened to shoot the sufferer whereas they have been stopped at a site visitors gentle, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

The sufferer fled southbound and Ebler adopted him, pulled subsequent to him and pointed a gun in his path.

Ebler then misplaced management of the Mustang and crashed into the embankment inflicting a fiery wreck, based on the sheriff’s workplace.

Ebler fled on foot, however sheriff’s deputies caught up with him a short while later. He didn’t have a weapon on him, however a canine was despatched to the scene and located a gun 150 toes from the crash.

Ebler was uncooperative with authorities, appeared impaired, and had suffered minor accidents within the crash, based on the sheriff’s division.

He was later charged with aggravated illegal use of a weapon, aggravated assault with a lethal weapon, aggravated DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.