Irate driver rams bakkie into car six times

FURIOUS over being asked to move her badly parked vehicle‚ a Durban woman allegedly tailgated a family leaving a fuel station and rear-ended their car six times.

“It was horrific road rage but I just am too shocked that someone could do this, especially because there were children in both vehicles‚” Sherwood resident Leanne Griffiths said.

Griffiths‚ her husband and their baby of seven months had gone to the shop at a fuel station near their home last week when they were parked in by a bakkie, she said.

“I then went into the shop with my baby and asked who was driving the bakkie. A woman who was reading a magazine inside said it was her vehicle and started shouting abuse at me.

“She said we would have to wait for her to finish and refused to move her vehicle.”

As they had to leave‚ Griffiths squeezed into her car.

As she drove away‚ she noticed that the woman had sped up behind her car and smashed into her car’s rear bumper with the bakkie.

“I tried to accelerate to get away, but she hit me from behind again.

“She did this knowing there was a baby in our car and with a toddler on the lap of her passenger.”

Griffiths said she stopped her car at a nearby business park and her husband left their vehicle with their baby.

She said the woman got out of her bakkie and then allegedly threatened her.

Her husband told her to drive off when the woman reached into her bakkie for something.

Fearing the worst‚ Griffiths took off. The woman again followed her and smashed into the back of her car three more times.

“I believe her intention was to drive me off the road and kill me.

“As I arrived at the gate of our house‚ the woman smashed into my car another time‚” she said.

When Griffiths climbed out of her vehicle to call for help‚ the woman sped off in the bakkie. After obtaining video footage of the bakkie from the fuel station‚ Griffith filed a complaint of reckless and negligent driving and malicious damage to property at the Sydenham police station.

Police did not respond to questions about the incident.

Griffiths injured her back and ribs in the rear-ends and has seen a psychologist for anxiety.

“The police have not yet managed to track her down, but I want justice,” she said.

“I want to make sure that she never does this to anyone else again. We are also afraid that she knows where we live and will make true on her threats to come back‚” Griffiths said.