Moment ‘road rage’ driver smashes van with cricket bat as it tries to drive away
- The incident is said to have taken place in Southall in West London
This is the moment a man smashes a cricket bat into the side of a van, apparently in road rage.
Footage of the incident, which is believed to have taken place in Southall, west London, shows a silver passenger car and a silver van stopped at a junction.
In the video, which was taken from another vehicle on the road, a man can be seen reaching into the boot of the car and pulling out a cricket bat.
The driver of the Citroën van sees what is about to happen, starts the engine and starts to drive away.
The man then charges at the moving vehicle, before raising the bat above his head and hitting the side of it.
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Video shows the moment a man attacks a van with a cricket bat in an apparent display of road rage
The man takes the sports equipment from the trunk of his car and starts walking towards the van
He then lifts it above his head as he charges towards the vehicle, which begins to drive away
As it drives past him, the man swings the bat and makes contact with the rear sliding door
Video of the confrontation was shared online on Friday, September 29, although the exact location where it took place is unknown.
One person said: ‘If that was my van he hit I would have stopped and got out!!’
Another joked ‘that’s LBW’, a reference to one of the ways a batsman can be dismissed in cricket.
MailOnline has contacted the Metropolitan Police for comment.
It involves a man who shouted at a female motorist during a terrifying road rage incident in Bournemouth, Dorset, which went viral and was exposed this weekend.
Peter Abbott began shouting at the woman, calling her ‘bloody annoying’ and a ‘bloody s**g’ during a confrontation at a Tesco petrol station on August 25.
The 59-year-old also banged on her windshield and snarled at the woman, shouting: “Do you see me, you fucking idiot?”
When confronted by reporters from The Sun outside his luxury apartment block in Bournemouth, he was similarly foul-mouthed and shouted at them to ‘f*** off’.
He shouted, ‘Just stay away from me. Go away.’
He then allegedly confronted the female reporter as she got into her car to leave, standing against the window and telling her to ‘f*** off’.
The photo shows Peter Abbott, 59, the foul-mouthed driver who shouted at a female motorist
The screaming motorist who punched a terrified female driver’s windscreen and called her a ‘s**g’ during a shocking road rage incident has been exposed as foul-mouthed Peter Abbott, 59
The driver rams into the woman’s car in the clip – the context of which remains unclear
Dorset Police previously said it was investigating the incident, although no one has been arrested.
A police spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘On Friday 25 August 2023 at approximately 11.40am, officers responded to a call from a member of the public following a public order and criminal damage incident at the Tesco petrol station on Castle Lane West , Bournemouth.
“It is reported that the man got out of his car, verbally abused the victim and punched the windshield of the victim’s car.
‘The investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been made yet.”