Pipe-wielding Tesla driver smashes automobiles in California road-rage rampage

Wild footage has captured an enraged Tesla driver smashing automobiles on a California freeway with a metallic pipe, in what appears to be the newest in a string of road-rage assaults involving the an identical suspect.

The most recent incident occurred spherical 8 a.m. Wednesday inside the southbound lanes of the 2 Freeway in Glendale.

In the video, an individual in a inexperienced T-shirt, darkish jeans and a black masks jumps out of his charcoal-colored Tesla with no license plates whereas brandishing a pipe, and begins pummeling the truck behind him.

After numerous whacks, the road-rage maniac will get once more in his car and drives away.

“Initially you think, ‘Should I pin him to the wall with my car?’ ‘Should I run him down?’ ‘What should I do?’ the victim told the station KTLA. “And I tried to stay focused and think, ‘I don’t want to go from victim to criminal in an instant.’”

The sufferer talked about he first started recording the rampaging Tesla driver after witnessing him objective one different car on the freeway that morning.

In the footage, the Tesla follows a white sedan onto an exit shoulder, the place the masked driver will get out of his car and tries to smash the alternative car sooner than it speeds away.

The driver of the white sedan instructed ABC 7 Eyewitness News she had honked on the Tesla on account of it was taking too prolonged to merge, which appeared to have triggered the individual’s rage.

The pipe assault left the lady’s car damaged — nevertheless she instructed the outlet she feels it may need been even worse.

“I honestly did feel like he was either gonna break my windows or pull me out,” she talked about.

Other drivers spherical Southern California have since been sharing motion pictures exhibiting what appears to be the an identical Tesla motorist attacking autos in Atwater Village, Echo Park and Pasadena over the earlier numerous months.

One woman talked about she ran into the Tesla driver, sporting associated inexperienced T-shirt and darkish jeans, at a storage facility in Atwater Village two months in the previous.

The woman talked about the individual harassed her with none provocation, after which adopted her, as seen in a video she recorded on the time.

“You better go outside Cali where you came from,” the individual tells the lady as he’ll get once more in his Tesla after hurling expletives at her.

“You don’t even know where I’m from,” she shoots once more. “I’m born and raised in LA.”

In one different cellphone recording made on a road in Pasadena, the individual at nighttime Tesla reaches out of his car whereas driving and strikes a passing car.

A third recording made in Echo Park reveals the Tesla proprietor clad in the an identical inexperienced shirt getting out of his car on 101 Freeway and placing the doorway of a stranger’s car with a pipe.

The drivers in each of the flicks have filed police tales, and the California Highway Patrol has launched an investigation into the string of apparent road-rage incidents. But monitoring the suspect down would possibly present tough on account of there aren’t any plates on his Tesla.