A St. Augustine man and his three passengers were injured when gunfire raked their car causing it to overturn and crash on Interstate 295 in Jacksonville during an apparent road rage shooting Saturday night investigators say might be linked to similar shootings earlier about 12 miles away on the interstate.

The Florida Highway Patrol is asking the public for help identifying and locating the person or people responsible for the shootings. The Saturday attacks occurred exactly one week after a 44-year-old tractor-trailer truck driver was shot to death in a road rage case involving another trucker on Interstate 10 between Commerce Parkway and Chaffee Road on the Jacksonville's westside.

All adults, the four victims from St. Augustine and Pittsburgh, Pa., sustained minor injuries in the crash at southbound I-295 at Philips Highway about 10:30 p.m., according to the Highway Patrol.

The Times-Union isn't naming the recent victims because the shooter or shooters remained at large Sunday.

The victims were southbound on I-295 in a white Chevrolet Aveo sedan when someone from inside a passing vehicle fired several shots at them. The shots were fired from the passenger side of the passing car and hit the driver's side of the Aveo, the Highway Patrol said.

The Aveo driver swerved in an attempt to avoid the bullets being fired at them. The sedan careened off the road onto the shoulder where it struck a utility pole and overturned several times. The victims all had been wearing their safety belts, according to the Highway Patrol.

The Highway Patrol said it had no description of the person or people firing the shots or of their vehicle. The reason for the shooting also was unknown Saturday.

Earlier, a Chevrolet Trailblazer sport utility vehicle and a Toyota Sienna passenger mini-van were shot at on I-295 near Gate Parkway by possibly the same suspect or suspects earlier, according to the Highway Patrol.

Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to contact the Highway Patrol.

There have been a series of road rage incidents including two previous shootings in Jacksonville and St. Johns County since early April. The prior shootings include the following:

� May 7 - George Guerrero of Perth Amboy, N.J., was shot to death on I-10 near Chaffee Road following a dispute with another tractor-trailer truck driver when witnesses said he changed lanes after leaving a construction area.

The second truck - a dull orange 2000 to 2005 Freightliner Century flattop with a sleeper cab and an aerodynamic roof fairing pulling a 53-foot white trailer - began tailgating Guerrero and pulled up alongside when Guerrero moved back into the right lane. The second trucker bumped Guerrero's truck and shot him as he veered off the road and crashed into the woods. No arrests have been made in the slaying under investigation by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

� May 5 - A 30-year-old St. Augustine man was shot several times at a gas station in Hastings following a road rage incident. Charles Ashton Bradley Jr. was taken in critical condition to Orange Park Medical Center after being shot in the abdomen, hands and arm. Bradley is the son of a chief in the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office. Investigators with that agency arrested Marveno Dwayne Scriven, 29, of Hastings on charges of attempted second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon following the shooting that investigators said began with an argument between the two men at the intersection of Florida 207 and St. Johns County Road 13.

� April 5 - A 33-year-old Palm Coast man said the driver of a Ford Mustang pointed a gun at him and his family including three children while they were driving on Interstate 95 near the exit to downtown Jacksonville. A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office report said Richard Francis Kenney III, 33, told police the incident began when he and the other driver had been cutting each other off, and when traffic slowed they stared at each other. Andrew J. Futch 23, a corrections officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a weapon in that case.

Teresa Stepzinski: (904) 359-4075