Shocking footage has emerged of a man punching a woman in the face during a violent incident on a NSW road in Australia. Facebook / Dwayne Pillidge
By Andrew Koubaridis and Megan Palin
The woman punched in the face by a man during a violent road rage attack caught on dashcam has slammed him as a "bitch, low-life [and] scumbag" on national television.
Newcastle woman Bianca Lee Sams, 22, was punched in the mouth during a heatedconfrontation on the NSW Central Coast.
Speaking to A Current Affair last night, she didn't hold back.
"I don't back down to no one, never have, never will. He's a bitch in my eyes," Sams said.
"I was like, 'this dude is a f***in' nutcase [and] I need to protect me, my friend and son'.
"I just grabbed a set of nails like a nail gun, breaking them up, and then I just started hoping he'd leave us alone, and throwing them at his car, he just kept coming."
Earlier, Sams revealed in a series of posts on social media that she also threw a chisel out her car window before the attack.
In one of the posts she claimed her actions were in response to allegedly nearly being run off the road in a car carrying herself, the driver and a "5-month-old baby".
"I threw them because I had to. [It was] what I had to do to protect me and my friend," Sams told ACA.
"We were both scared, We didn't know what to do.
"We tried swerving and he kept following us."
Bianca Lee Sams has been boasting about the encounter on social media.
Sams' comments follow the release of mobile phone footage of the attack, which took place in Doyalson, Lake Macquarie.
Truck driver Dwayne Pillidge said he saw a woman throwing projectiles from the car she was a passenger in.
"It was kind of like a Dukes of Hazzard scene, so she was sitting on the windowsill and it looked a little bit like maybe small pieces of wood," Pillidge wrote when he posted the video to Dash Cam Owners Australia.
"I don't care what your reason, it is not OK to hit a woman."
The attack captured on Pillidge's dash cam shows a man in a yellow T-shirt walking determinedly towards the vehicle stopped at an intersection in front of him.
Sams can be seen in the footage as she gets out the passenger side and stands next to the car with her arms folded as the man approaches.
They appear to say something to each other. Within seconds, he punches her directly in the face.
"I wasn't gonna do nothing to him," Sams told ACA.
"I had my arms crossed, I wasn't it's an aggressive manner. I always cross me arms."
In the footage, Sams' head jerks violently back and she then grabs her face and climbs back into her car. The man walks back to his own vehicle, but as he is doing so, the front vehicle reverses and appears to swerve toward him.
Not that innocent - Bianca Sams posted that she broke the man's car window.
She told friends on Facebook she passed the man "doing 50 in a 80 zone" and alleged he became aggressive.
Sams said her friend Taylor, who was driving, had a baby in the car when the assault occurred.
"Wanna I hope I never find you. Still standing didn't even hurt mate," she wrote. The post was accompanied with laughing emojis.
After friends asked if she was okay, she told them she was "fine" but wanted to take him to the police.
"Hit me right in the jaw hahaha doesn't hurt one bit."
Police have confirmed they are investigating the attack. A NSW Police spokesman told news.com.au a woman had made contact with police.
"While police are yet to receive a formal complaint from the alleged victim in this matter, officers from Tuggerah Lakes Local Area Command will be reviewing the footage to identify and locate any involved parties. Inquiries are continuing."
Police have since identified the man and will be speaking with him, authorities said.
"At this stage there is much conjecture, some people making comments on social media are stating that there might be some aggravating circumstances leading up to the event, but we are unaware of that and we have had no one give us formal information to that effect," he said.
