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A Porirua woman has been left shaken after an alleged road rage incident where she claimed a man threw rubbish at her car before running at her vehicle and screaming about fighting her.
At 6.50am, the woman was running late to work when she said a man went “hoofing”through a busy intersection and cut her car off.
While the woman drove behind the blue car, caught on dash camera footage, the male driver began throwing rubbish out of the window at her car, including a plastic bottle, she claimed.
The woman increased her distance from the car on Postgate Dr in Whitby, trying to avoid more trouble.
A Porirua local caught the incident on her dash camera.
The man was wearing a long-sleeve blue top, and what appeared to be workmen’s pants.
The woman didn’t want to make assumptions about the man, saying he might have just been having a bad day.
“But I do feel that he needs to be held accountable in some sense. Like what if it was an old woman that experienced that or an old person, you know, someone more vulnerable than me?
The car is a dark blue, she said.
“I also want them to be able to get that health and support that they need because obviously something’s going on for them, because that’s not a normal response.”
The woman shared news of the incident to Facebook to look for more information, resulting in the person that had been in a vehicle behind her contacting her to try help identify the car type.
