CHILTON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — A local man is facing a number of charges after police say he hit a motorcycle and forced it off I-65 S Monday, injuring the driver and passenger in what officials believe was a possible incident of road rage.

“When I got to her all I found was a lifeless and motionless body laying face down in a pool of blood and all I could think was she was dead,” said Griff “Bucket” West, the motorcycle driver in the incident.

He and his fiancee, Monica Dobbs, were on their way to Panama City Beach when they came up on an aggressive driver who was targeting another vehicle.

“I decided I didn’t want to get caught up in him doing that so I went around him in the emergency lane and when I did, he started chasing me,” said West.

He accelerated to try to escape, but the driver caught up.

“He bumped me. I pulled my weapon and discharged it into his engine,” said West, explaining that he was acting in self defense.

West said he was traveling at about 75 or 80 miles an hour at the time and the driver backed off, but not for long.

“I throttled it trying to get away from him and when he caught up to me and hit me, that sent me into the death wobble. I was doing about 110 miles an hour.”

West said he held onto the bike as long as he could but lost control.

“The next thing I remember is waking up in the median and my fiancee was in the northbound side of the interstate instead of the southbound side where we started out at,” he said.

According to officials, the suspect fled the scene after forcing them off the road, injuring the man and woman on the bike.

Authorities got a call from a local body shop the next morning about a car matching the description of the suspect vehicle that forced the victims off the road. The suspect, identified as Chilton County man Cleveland Edward George, was later arrested.

“We got a report of a vehicle matching that description at one of the local body shops the next morning and that in turn led us to him,” said Chief Keith Maddox with the Clanton Police Department.

George, 59, is charged with three felonies: two counts of aggravated assault and one count of leaving the scene of an accident. His bond for the charges totals $25,000.

West and Dobbs had a beach wedding planned for Friday which has now been postponed, but they are still getting married.

“We’re still getting married Sunday afternoon. But it’ll be right here laying next to each other in this bed,” said West.