Road Rage Driver Beats Mother as Her 8-Year-Old Watches

Jesenice, Czech Republic – A driver in a black SUV forced a woman to brake on the D6 motorway and then attacked her in her car while her eight-year-old daughter sat beside her.

Footage released by Czech police from the woman's dashboard camera shows the SUV pulling in front of her and braking hard on a stretch of the motorway under construction near Jesenice on October 11. The man then walks back to her car, opens the door and repeatedly hits her.

Police said the woman had been keeping to the reduced speed limits through the roadworks. When she told the man the camera was recording him, he tried to grab it, but her daughter hid it under her seat. A second clip, from the camera of another driver who stopped, shows the man at the scene.

The driver is suspected of attempted bodily harm, disorderly conduct and attempted theft, police said when they released the video on October 22.