Nancy Lee Leight, a 68-year-old resident of 5 Zoffinger Place in Palm Coast, faces two felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following a road rage incident in which she allegedly brandished a gun against a driver she’d cut off.
Tuesday morning the alleged victim and his girlfriend were driving south on U.S. 1 when they prepared to turn at the intersection with Palm Coast Parkway. Leight was in the left turn lane. She decided not to make the turn and continue straight, cutting off the other driver and forcing him to apply the brakes hard and swerve out of the way, sending his girlfriend against the dashboard.
That angered him. He drove up to Leight on her right and flicked her off. Leight, the alleged victim told Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies, “immediately brandished a gun from her lap area,” waved it in th air, “shouting while pointing the gun at him and his passenger.” The driver backed off and followed Leight’s car from a distance while calling 911. He waited for deputies at Verdego, the plant nursery on U.S. 1.
The alleged victim’s girlfriend corroborated the account to deputies. “We thought we could get shot by her,” the woman told deputies, scared and shaking. Leight told deputies she had a gun in her purse under the driver’s seat and did remove it from there because she was scared. She placed the gun on the seat next to her in case she needed protection, but she said she never pointed it at anyone. Deputies located the gun, a Sig P365 9mm, in Leight’s Chrysler Town and Country van with a round in the chamber and a magazine containing 10 rounds.
Leigh was booked at the Flagler County jail on the two third-degree felony charges (her vehicle was towed by Roger’s Towing). She spent 32 hours in jail and was released on $2,000 bond.
JimboXYZ says
Just another incident of the Village Idiots. And the victims, the driver was no brighter than the elderly senior woman. Someone cuts you off & there are no accidents, count yourself fortunate, get over it and don’t take matters into your own hands, that’s what LEO does, if it was that big of a deal anyway. I have serious doubts the female passenger was sent to the car’s dashboard (overstated fabricated drama), was she wearing her seatelt ? Reason veing, every seatbelt on planet Earth doesn’t work like that for a panic stop. When the car brakes hard the seatbelt relatively locks to secure the motorist/passenger(s). Virtually every car on the road is like that & also has driver, passenger dashboard air bags, not to mention airbags that would be deployed for the pillar, seats and everywhere else one is installed.
Being cut off in traffic is nothing to get upset beyond in that moment that it happens. When there is no accident, pull off to the side of the road if it rattled your sad little pathetic existence of a world that much. USE YOUR BRAIN for a change. Best thing that can happen is the offending motorist gets further away from you. Trust me, a couple minutes & you won’t even know she was ever on the road & coincided with your commute. Those few minutes gives you an opportunity to console the dramas queen. Are we talking a couple more minutes of your life that is immaterial & such an inconvenience. This could’ve ended with gun play & nobody else deserves that for being in traffic because of a lane change. I can’t imagine being on the same road with the 3 of these morons. Put a sign on your car so that the rest of us know what we’re dealing with for coinciding with any of you in a commute.
Steve says
I have to agree with alot of what you commented on. No collision no injury move on. It’s not worth it.
Pat Stote says
Two hotheads, one with a loaded gun! This could have turned out much worse.
Hopefully Miss Lehigh will have more respect for the rules of the road in the future and keep her gun under the seat for emergencies only. And maybe the victim will let cool heads prevail.
None of this needed to happen.
James says
Welcome to the WildWild East City of PC. Bet she’s a Trumper. He has taught the county to be rude, violent and not to care about your fellow man.
Tired of it says
I am sure she is part of a “well regulated militia” and not just an angry old lady.
Steve says
Angry old Karen with a gun. What could go wrong. Both Parties should reevaluate the importance of being lucky there was no collision or injury.
PS Take her Gun away from her for awhile.
Joe says
Too many idiots with guns…welcome to America.