One hammer blow in a road rage incident in Pt Chevalier this afternoon was delivered to the driver's side of the windscreen of this occupied Toyota Prius. Photo / Supplied
One hammer blow in a road rage incident in Pt Chevalier this afternoon was delivered to the driver's side of the windscreen of this occupied Toyota Prius. Photo / Supplied
A 24-year-old man says he was "shit scared" after a yelling and screaming woman smashed a hammer into the windscreen of his car, just inches from his face at a busy suburban Auckland intersection on Friday afternoon.
The apparent road rage incident occurred at the intersection of Great North and Carrington roads in Pt Chevalier about 12.40pm.
The man, who didn't want to be named, said he had just gone to pick up some lunch from McDonald's and was on his way home when the woman "came from nowhere" and started banging on his car.
"At first she was just banging on the windscreen, and yelling some words I couldn't understand ... I wasn't too worried at the point," he said.
"But then she went to her car and came back with a hammer. I didn't think she would smash my windscreen and hammered three times on my bonnet. I quickly locked my door ... I got shit scared."
The man, who has lived in Auckland for five years, said it was the first time something like his has happened to him.
"I think this woman was just drunk," he said.
One hammer blow in a road rage incident in Pt Chevalier this afternoon was delivered to the driver's side of the windscreen of this occupied Toyota Prius. Photo / Supplied
A witness, who also asked not to be named, told the Herald he'd never seen anything like it before.
"I could hear this woman yelling and screaming across the road, and she was holding a hammer.
"She just went for the windscreen ... if you look at where the hammer went it was right where the driver was sitting."
He couldn't make out exactly what the woman was saying.
The woman, who he described as stocky and aged in her 20s or 30s, also struck the bonnet of the silver Toyota Prius at least three times with the hammer.
The three blows delivered to the bonnet of a silver Prius in a hammer attack - during a road rage incident in Pt Chevalier today - can be clearly seen. Photo / Supplied
She then got into a white sedan, which drove away down Carrington Rd, its boot flapping open as it disappeared, the witness said.
The man wasn't harmed but was "very quiet" after the incident, the witness said.
Others were also shaken, including an elderly woman near him who witnessed the incident and fellow motorists, some of whom emerged from their vehicles - phones in hand - during the attack.
Police arrived at the scene about 10 to 15 minutes later, and some people were able to give the registration number of the white sedan to officers, the witness said.
A police spokeswoman confirmed officers responded to a road rage incident in Pt Chevalier today.
