Out of pure luck, Kim Christianson was able to track down the man who seemingly deliberately drove into her, leaving her leg badly injured.
The incident occurred when Kim and her husband, Grant, were driving along Durban’s beachfront last Sunday. Driving behind them, a BMW was attempting to overtake the couple on a single-road lane so Grant started filming, reports Times LIVE.
But the driver of the BMW – a man – had to slam on brakes and swerve behind the couple so he could avoid a head-on collision with oncoming traffic.
Instead, he hit the back left side of the Christianson’s Corolla:
“I drove to the end of the road. I stopped and got out and said to him that he should follow to a police station. My wife‚ Kim‚ was also videoing. She got out of her side of the car [and] he held up his hat trying to cover his face‚” said Christianson.
But that’s where things got bad:
“He drove into my car again; this time the right front came into contact with the left back of my car. He quickly reversed and tried to go around us. He went alongside my car and turned directly into my wife and crushed her between the two cars‚ then raced off.
“You can see the video of the guy coming towards her‚ turning his steering wheel‚ laughing and crushing her and the video goes pear-shaped‚” he said.
Take a look:
So how did they catch him? Well:
“We thought her legs were broken. An off-duty paramedic came and attended to Kim. Metro Police officers who were on the scene asked me if I could move the car out of the road to a safer place. But I didn’t want to go unless I found her phone because I couldn’t find it [after she was hit].
“I thought the phone had been taken because a crowd had now started to gather‚ not maybe fell in this guy’s car. I put on the ‘Find my friends’ app‚ which we use as a family to track each other for safety’s sake. Her phone was indicating it was in a road above the Umgeni Bird Park‚ a few kilometres away. Put my wife in my car and followed to the address‚ and we caught the guy there. I’ve got it all on video‚” he said.
The man, a 25-year-old medical intern, was “under the influence of something strong,” explained Christianson, and was taken to hospital where blood was taken.
SAPS spokesman Captain Nqobile Gwala confirmed the arrest:
“We can confirm that a 25-year-old suspect was arrested by Durban Central police for drunken driving and reckless and negligent driving. He appeared in Durban Magistrate’s Court on 29 August 2017‚” she said.
Gwala added that information on the outcome of the case wasn’t immediately known.
Not a very good look, and what are the chances that the phone falls into the guy’s car?
So who is a bigger doos, this chap above or that road rager from Paarl? Tough call.
[source:timeslive]
