Woman recorded in road rage incident speaks out

PLACER COUNTY, Calif. -- For the first time, a woman blamed for a terrifying road rage incident caught on video is sharing her side of the story. Last weekend, two teens in Placer County said she tried to run them off the road and they have the cellphone video as evidence. Deidre Orozco was arrested.

On Friday, she talked to ABC affiliate KXTV News10 reporter Thom Jensen from jail.

From the visiting room at the Placer County Jail 50-year-old Orozco said she had no idea millions of people around the world had viewed the cellphone video of her truck ramming a small car and forcing it off I-80. But she admits she was trying to get the driver of the small car to pull over.

The Santa Clara woman has spent the past six days in jail after being arrested in the road rage case. She said Vanessa Gladieux was texting while she was driving and nearly hit several cars on the interstate in Placer County that day. Gladieux told News10 earlier this week that Orozco was the only one driving erratically that day.

"I mean she just forced her way in. There was no room for her. She made room," Gladieux said.

She claims much of her memory from that afternoon is a blur, but Orozco admits she was upset that day, still stinging from spending the previous night in jail accused in a separate hit and run incident and hurting because she hadn't taken her medicine for chronic pain.

And about that ID that Orozco flashed at the two women during the ordeal, Orozco said she was trying to show Gladieux her bail bondsman card and was telling her that she was making a citizen's arrest for reckless driving.

Click here to watch the entire road rage incident

**Warning: The video contains adult language**

ABC News10 contributed to this report.