Rental truck hits fence, nine cars at Hartsfield

ATLANTA - Police said the driver of a rental truck was in custody after crashing through a fence Thursday at a Northwest Airlines facility at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport and striking nine cars. <br> <br> Sergeant S.P. Hutchins said 40-year-old William Phillips Junior had gotten into a dispute with another driver on Interstate 75. <br> <br> Hutchins said, ``The guy driving a Ryder (rental) truck apparently got a little irritated at another driver. The car tried to get around him, but the truck cut him off a couple of times before they both got off the highway at Aviation Boulevard.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Hutchins said a short distance later, the Ryder driver ran a stop sign and the truck sideswiped two cars. <br> <br> He said the truck then cut across the median and crashed through the fence at the Northwest Airlines training facility parking lot, hitting nine more cars. <br> <br> Phillips was charged with aggressive driving and a number of other traffic violations.

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