By Brett Sholtis, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

PHILADELPHIA — Maritza Arias-Galva was on her way home from the grocery store in Atlantic County on Thursday, eager to celebrate her own belated birthday party with her children on her day off work. She’d bought a small cake, balloons, and all she needed to cook pasta and shrimp, one of her 9-year-old daughter’s favorite meals.

But when the 42-year-old mother of three tried to merge into another lane of traffic on Wrangleboro Road in Galloway Township her day took a horrific turn.

“I put my blinkers on, and he didn’t like it,” Arias-Galva said of another driver. She recounted what happened from her bed at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Arias-Galva said the driver blocked her from merging into his lane. Then, the man pursued her i

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