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Daniel Midah was driving on Interstate 95 in Miami, Fla., when he noticed a man on the hood of the car next to him. “All I was thinking,” Midah says, was “this guy is going to slide off and hit me, slide off the other side or, if anything, he is going to slide down and she is going to hit him, and then she is going to crash into somebody else.” There was a woman driving the car at speeds of up to 70 mph, and the man on the hood was talking on the phone — with the police. Patresha Isidore, 24, and Junior Francis, 22, both share ownership of the car. According to Francis, both of them needed the car but Isidore beat him to it, so Francis jumped on the hood to keep her from leaving. It didn’t work: she drove off anyway. “That’s when things took a turn,” Francis said — she turned onto the interstate, and Francis held on until Isidore exited and he was able to get the keys out of the ignition. Isidore was arrested and charged with crimes against a person exposing them to harm, but Francis told police he didn’t want to press charges and refused to provide a sworn statement. “This woman is going to kill me,” he said to reporters later. “She’s really out to kill me.” (MS/WPLG Miami) ...They’d go to couple’s therapy, but can’t agree on who should drive.