Route 6 Road Rage Incident Sends Seekonk Man to Court

A Route 6 road rage incident will result in a Seekonk man being called to Taunton District Court to answer for his alleged actions. According to the alleged victim, Kayle Plouffe of Riverside, she was driving east on Route 6 near the at around 9 am on Friday, May 27, when she came up behind a slow-moving vehicle that was straddling both lanes of the roadway.

She said she attempted to pass the vehicle and honked her horn to get the driver’s attention. According to Plouffe, the driver then swerved to the right and cut her off. When she moved back to the left lane, she claims, he swerved back to cut her off again.

She told police she then moved back to the right lane and the other driver threw an object out the window that struck and smashed the passenger side of her windshield. She said she did not know what the object was. She slowed down enough to note the man’s license plate, before he turned off onto a side street.

She then continued east on Route 6 into Swansea and called Swansea Police. An officer met her and called Seekonk to report the incident. Seekonk Patrolman Fred Paquin responded. In his report, he said Plouffe “was trembling and visibly shaken.”

It turns out the driver was in a 2011 Chevy Equinox that had been rented from Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Patrolman Paquin contacted Enterprise and learned the vehicle had been rented by Richard Sorel of 26 Sagamore Road, Seekonk, because his vehicle was being repaired.

After speaking to Mr. Sorel’s wife, who said her husband had left that morning to play golf, Patrolman Paquin eventually contacted Mr. Sorel and asked him to come to the station. Sorel “adamantly denied” throwing anything at the woman’s vehicle and said Plouffe “was making up her story,” according to Patrolman Paquin’s report. At the end of the interview, Patrolman Paquin wrote in his report, “I informed him I felt he was not being truthful.” He told Sorel that he would be summoned to court for assault by means of a dangerous weapon and for malicious destruction of property valued more than $250.