A Bay of Plenty woman claims she was attacked and her car rammed after she tried to help someone in distress.
The woman said she was driving near the end of Welcome Bay Rd towards Papamoa early on Sunday morning when she spotted the distressed young woman running on the side of the road, crying.
The woman said she pulled over to check on the woman and was told to go away.
As she began to turn her car around and head back the way she came, she said a man emerged from bushes on the side of the road and put his hands through her driver's side window.