A man witnessed the most aggressive driving he’s ever seen and wants the driver of the car that was hit to know there was a witness.

The Enterprise is withholding the man’s name because he is fearful of repercussions from the aggressive driver.

He describes events unfolding this way:

On Thursday, Dec. 12, at about three in the afternoon, he and his wife were driving on Route 155, State Farm Road, from Guilderland to Voorheesville.

Near the traffic light at Dr. Shaw Road, a gray Scion in front of them tried to pass the car in front of it, although the road there is marked with double yellow lines.

At the next traffic light, at Wormer Road, the Scion tried to pass again, although again the road there is marked with a double yellow line. 

The Scion sideswiped the car it was trying to pass, breaking the car’s side mirror in the process.

When it couldn’t complete the pass, the Scion accelerated into oncoming traffic and tried again, this time hitting the front end of the car as it passed and nearly spinning the victim’s car off the road, pushing the victim’s sedan onto the shoulder.

The witness said it was only the calmness of the driver being passed that saved the car from careening completely off the roadway.

Meanwhile, the witness, with his wife in the passenger seat, continued to follow the Scion to get its license-plate number.

The Scion made a quick left at the next light, turning onto Normanskill Road and then looped back to Wormer Road.

As he followed the Scion, the witness said, “We dialed 9-1-1 twice — the second time to give them the license-plate number. Both times, the 9-1-1 dispatcher terminated the call.” The first call was at 3:18 and the second at 3:22, he said.

Just after the witness parted ways with the offender, the State Police called back, he said, to confirm the plate number and learn the last known location of the offender.

The witness has not heard from police since, he said.

“It was freakin’ scary, really scary,” he said. “I lived in California for 10 years and I’ve never seen anyone drive so aggressively.  They knocked this person onto the shoulder.”

Trooper Kerra Burns, spokeswoman for Troop G, said on Tuesday she could find no record of State Police answering such a 9-1-1 call and suggested perhaps it was handled by Guilderland Police.

Curtis Cox, deputy chief of the Guilderland Police, said on Wednesday that his department had records of the witness’s calls, but had had no call from the victim.

“I’m not seeing they reported an accident,” he said. “We would take action if we knew the other party.”

The Enterprise gave Cox the license-plate number, which the witness had obtained, and Cox said, “We would run the plate number … and definitely conduct an investigation.”

Results won’t be available for several days, Cox said.

He also said, “We get frequent calls from people who witness aggressive driving … It’s helpful to have the plate number. We follow up to see if we have to take action.”

Speaking in general terms, Burns commented on how cell phones have changed police work.

“With the invention of the cell phone, you can get real-time information,” she said, “as opposed to back in the day when you had to wait till you got home to report something you witnessed.”

Burns said there were no statistics on how often witnesses call police when they witness driving infractions, nor is there data on aggressive-driving arrests.

“I was on the road for 13 years,” Burns said. “Aggressive driving is certainly something we deal with. But it’s not recorded all the time as aggressive driving. It depends on how the ticket is written.”