Road Rager Takes Hammer To Victims’ Windshield

Even when you’re seen a lot of road rage incidents, this one out of Southern California where a woman takes a hammer and smashes another car’s windshield is shocking. We’ve seen hammers used in road rage attacks before, but they’re usually used against people, not glass. Even though nobody was injured, this attack was surely traumatizing enough.

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The attack in question unfolded in the Exposition Park area of Los Angeles as a mother was driving her teenage daughter to the movies. The victim first noticed the other crossover tailgating her and not stopping at stop signs, instead blowing through them to stay on her tail, all of it caught on dashcam.

We’ve all experienced someone not liking something we’ve done on the road, even just that we’re there, and had someone tailgate us. It’s not a fun experience, but usually the aggressive driver eventually moves on.

The other driver did eventually pass them illegally on the road. But then she blocked the way, got out of her vehicle, and started hitting the victims’ windshield repeatedly with a hammer. That left cracks across the glass.

We assume people who do these sorts of things have a big problem with impulsivity when they feel angry. Everyone gets angry or frustrated when driving, it’s just part of the experience. But most people understand physically attacking others isn’t the way to express that.

Other hammer attacks we’ve seen in road rage incidents have ended with the attacker being shot, so this woman quite frankly is lucky her victims weren’t harmed. After all, a hammer used against someone else is absolutely a deadly weapon, so any normal person would feel they’re in imminent danger in a situation like this.

That’s the thing about road rage: you really are counting on the other party not being willing to retaliate with deadly force. That’s one of many reasons why everyone should learn to just brush things off and keep driving instead of getting into a fight on the road.

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