A single mother in Massachusetts was seriously injured after a shocking road rage attack that was caught on camera, the New York Submit reported.
Hailea Soares, 31, suffered a head injury and several broken bones after she was struck in the body by another driver in Attleboro Friday morning.
Soares, a mother of two, was driving in the area shortly before 9 a.m. when the driver in front of her stopped abruptly, causing a minor collision between the two vehicles. According to Soares, the situation quickly escalated when the other driver, Gladior Kwesiah, 26, of Rhode Island, slammed on the brakes repeatedly. “He kept slamming on his brakes and then when we got to the intersection, he ran a light and was in front of me,” Soares told WHDH-TV Information. “As soon as we passed, we didn’t even make it across and he slammed on the brakes, so I hit him.”
That’s when the violent attack began. Police said Kwesiah stormed out of his car and forcibly removed Soares from his vehicle. Soares, who had only intended to take photographs of the damage, said Kwesiah grabbed her phone and threw her to the ground. “I tried to fight back and then he picked me up, and that’s when the woman got the video of me being thrown to the ground,” she said. “I remember thinking, ‘I’m in the air right now. I’m in the air.’”
The brutal attack was filmed by a witness and Soares was left on the ground with multiple injuries. A GoFundMe page created for Soares described her as bruised and crying as passersby looked on in shock.
Kwesiah was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon resulting in serious injury, malicious destruction of property and driving without a license. He was placed on bail of $25,000.
Soares was rushed to Sturdy Memorial Hospital, where she was treated for a broken knee, a broken foot, an injured eye socket and a serious head injury.
Despite her injuries, Soares said she was glad to be able to return home to her children. “I was just being a jerk on the road,” he said in a separate interview with ABC-TV Information. “I don’t know if I was having a bad day. “I don’t know what that was, but if it was because of the kind of person he is, I don’t think he belongs in the society that the rest of us have.”
