Liz and Kyungjin Jeong, who was knocked unconscious in a road rage attack, at North Shore Hospital. Photo / Supplied
A man suffered a skull fracture in a Boxing Day road rage attack when a motorist in a van got out and knocked him unconscious.
Kyungjin Jeong, 45, is still recovering in North Shore Hospital and police are investigating the assault.
Jeong, from Glenfield, was driving to Harvey Norman in Wairau Park with his wife and two young children to buy a washing machine for his mother in the Boxing Day sales.
Jeong got out of their car but, his wife says, the man pushed him against it before they moved into the road, Liz said.
Then suddenly, Liz saw her husband fall to the ground, unconscious and bleeding from his head.
Liz says witnesses told her the man punched her husband three times.
"My daughter was yelling, 'Don't hurt my daddy' and was crying.
"I quickly grabbed my phone and called the cops and the ambulance and I saw blood pumping out of my husband's head. People got out of their cars to help.
"Then I looked at the man and he was smiling and he said, 'What?' then jogged towards his car.
Liz said she tried to stop the man from shutting his van door and tried to keep him at the scene, but he pushed her away and drove off.
She chased after the van but he drove away too quickly. She was able to see that the van was a company car. The Herald has decided not to name the company involved.
Liz said her husband was unconscious for a few minutes and when he came to, had no idea what had happened or who he was.
He was taken to North Shore Hospital where he was found to have a skull fracture and concussion, she said.
His staff were all on annual leave so he wasn't able to find out who was involved, but expressed concern.
In an unrelated incident, a couple said they had a firearm pointed at them during a road rage incident in West Auckland yesterday.
The frightening incident ended with an altercation between two men at a shopping area in Massey and a police hunt for one of the parties, a police spokeswoman said.
Yesterday afternoon, police were still making enquiries.