HOUSTON—Authorities said that road rage was behind a double shooting that landed two men in a cemetery early Friday morning.

Investigators said that the driver of a white pickup slammed his foot on the brakes to keep the vehicle behind him from tail gating. The driver of that second truck, a dark colored Ford F150, pulled along side the pickup and someone inside started shooting.

Both men in the white pickup were shot in the back.

The driver collapsed behind the wheel, and the truck veered off the road, sailing through a ditch and crashing into the metal archway of the Huffman Cemetery.

Both victims were transported to Ben Taub Hospital. One of the injured men was released. The second victim is still being treated.

Deputies said moments before the crash, the men in the white truck had another pickup truck race up behind them on FM 2100. They said the men tapped their brakes to make the other driver back up.

"Then when the guy tried to pass, they accelerated and to try to prevent him from passing,” said Lt. John Denholm of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

“The highway is no place to play and unfortunately this time, it nearly had deadly consequences," said Lt. John Denholm of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

A recent insurance industry survey found that half of all drivers respond to aggressive driving with aggressive driving of their own. Nearly 35 percent honk, 19 percent give the finger back,  seven percent mimic what the other driver did to them, and two percent even admit trying to run the other driver off the road.

Deputies are asking that other driver come forward to help explain why another road rage statistic has made the news again.