HONOLULU — Newly released surveillance footage reveals the frightening instant when Nathaniel Radimak, a Tesla driver widely known for a number of road-rage incidents in Southern California, is accused of attacking a mother and her daughter during another road-rage episode while in Hawaii.
Diane Ung says she was teaching her teenage daughter how to parallel park Wednesday when a Tesla came zooming by.
“He was driving at maybe 40, 50 miles per hour down the street and nearly hit her,” Ung recounted. “And, of course, being a local, she shouted from her window. She said, ‘Slow down.'”
The surveillance clip captures the Tesla driver executing a U-turn. According to Ung, he then began yelling at her 18-year-old daughter, whose infant was asleep in the vehicle.
Ung said Radimak told her, “‘What the F did you say to me? Say it back to me.'”
“Then he got closer to my daughter’s window, reached in and punched her in her face,” Ung said.
Nathaniel Radimak, the “Tesla road rage guy,” has been arrested again in Hawaii in an incident similar to his charges across Southern California.
Footage appears to shows the man throw a punch at the driver as he stood next to the car.
Ung said she got out to defend her daughter.
She said Radimak told her, “‘You better shut your (expletive) face,'” and threatened her.
Video then appears to show Radimak violently confront Ung.
“I had my coffee in my hand, my ice coffee from McDonald’s, threw it at his car, and he came running across the street, struck me like a Superman punch right inside my face,” Ung recalled. “I fell down to the ground, big gash in my head.”
She said the driver then took off.
“And I’m just like, ‘Go check on the baby. Don’t worry about me. Go check on the baby,'” Ung said.
Radimak was arrested by Honolulu police the next day. He’s been charged with unauthorized entry in a motor vehicle and two counts of assault.
Radimak was sentenced in 2023 to five years in prison after the road-rage attacks in Southern California but served less than a year due to prison overcrowding.
Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents several of his victims in Los Angeles, says this latest attack was inevitable.
“This is someone who apparently remains dangerous, who has not learned his lesson,” she said.
Allred said Radimak could be extradited to California for violating parole.
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