Recent years have seen a disturbing trend of assailants using vehicles to carry out attacks on innocent civilians. These attacks have ranged from terror incidents linked to radical religious beliefs to those allegedly perpetrated by white nationalists or far-right activists.
One such incident occurred in New Orleans when an Army veteran rammed a 6,000-pound pickup truck into a crowd of revelers, resulting in a tragic massacre. This attacker, who had served in Afghanistan, was found to have an ISIS flag on the truck during the attack.
