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'Pretty freaky' - Bottles thrown from car, man punched in Christmas Day road-rage attack

Author
Georgina Campbell,
Publish Date
Thu, 26 Dec 2024, 4:07pm
Dramatic dashcam footage has captured a scary Christmas Day road-rage incident in Flat Bush. Photo / Still from supplied video
Dramatic dashcam footage has captured a scary Christmas Day road-rage incident in Flat Bush. Photo / Still from supplied video

'Pretty freaky' - Bottles thrown from car, man punched in Christmas Day road-rage attack

Author
Georgina Campbell,
Publish Date
Thu, 26 Dec 2024, 4:07pm

A man was punched in the face and bottles were thrown from a car during a Christmas Day road-rage attack in 础耻肠办濒补苍诲鈥檚 Flat Bush.

Natalie was travelling with her husband and their 4-year-old child when the incident happened at about 2pm.

The family were on their way home when a vehicle overtook them, as well as the car in front, at a merging point on the road.

鈥淚t was pretty fast, so it felt dangerous and that鈥檚 why we slowed down to let him go on,鈥 Natalie said.

She said the driver who had been overtaken became enraged.

鈥淗e was throwing things at the car in front that overtook him. He was throwing a lot of bottles and cups.鈥

Dramatic dashcam footage has captured a scary Christmas Day road-rage incident in Flat Bush. Photo / Still from supplied video

Dramatic dashcam footage has captured a scary Christmas Day road-rage incident in Flat Bush. Photo / Still from supplied video

Video footage also shows the angry driver unsuccessfully trying to overtake the car and narrowly missing an oncoming vehicle.

鈥淚nitially when he threw a takeaway cup out, like a fast food takeaway cup, we thought, 鈥極kay, something鈥檚 starting up鈥,鈥 Natalie said.

鈥淏ut we didn鈥檛 know how severe it would be.鈥

When they reached Murphys Rd, the annoyed driver finally managed to overtake the car but came to an immediate stop in front of it.

He got out of his vehicle, walked towards the other car and punched the other driver in the face, Natalie said.

鈥淲e were quite scared because we didn鈥檛 know if we should interfere or not because they seemed really aggressive, from the way he punched him.

鈥淚t was quite freaky and we鈥檝e got a child so we didn鈥檛 want to get ourselves involved.鈥

The man who was punched then became angry, Natalie said.

鈥淗e drove his car forward to knock the other car that was blocking him ... after hitting the front car, he reversed out and overtook him then pulled over to the side of the road.鈥

Traffic that had backed up behind the pair could then pass.

Natalie and her family returned home. They assumed one of the drivers had contacted the police because they saw him take out his phone as if to make a call.

However, a police spokesperson told the Herald they were not aware of any reports about the incident at this stage.

Natalie wanted to highlight the drivers鈥 behaviour because it had caused 鈥渁 lot of disruption and fear鈥 for other motorists.

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