A tradie has been charged with dangerous driving after footage emerged of a shocking road rage incident lasting over four minutes along a busy highway.
The clip, obtained by 9 News, begins with a Toyota Hilux allegedly tailgating a driver while blaring the horn along Majura Parkway in Canberra about 5.40pm last Sunday.
A terrified female passenger can be heard saying, “I’m really scared, I am going to call the cops” as the incident unfolds.
The woman also begs her friends to "lock the doors” as she describes the ute driver’s appearance to a police operator in an increasingly panicked triple zero call.
The tradie in the HiLux can be seen shouting profanities before allegedly cutting the vehicle off, brake checking and eventually stopping at a green light and blocking the lane.
ACT police told news.com.au a 39-year-old man from Turner had been charged following the alleged road rage incident with furious driving and driving with a suspended licence.
He is scheduled to appear in court on October 4.
According to a survey conducted by Finder, 73 per cent of Australian drivers have been the victims of a road rage incident.
Tailgating is the number one offence most likely to be experienced behind the wheel (49 per cent), followed by another driver blasting their horn (42 per cent).
Around 1 in 3 drivers (32%) have been subjected to verbal abuse on the road, with that same number (32 per cent) purposely cut off by another driver.
Last month, a video of a tradie’s ute being rear-ended moments after he brake-checked a driver went viral.
Dashcam footage captured the ugly road rage clash on the Pacific Highway in Greenwich, Sydney, around midday.
The clip begins with the driver with the mounted camera being angrily honked from behind as he sits in the right lane at a set of traffic lights.
The honking continues as the dashcam driver moves on from the lights before a white work ute overtakes.
The ute veers back in front and aggressively hits the skids. The driver with the dashcam cannot stop in time as the ute’s tray scrapes up its bonnet.
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Two tradies emerge peacocking from the work ute as the car driver behind yells, “I can’t believe you did that, mate. Why did you do that for? (sic) ““You didn’t give me any time (to stop) man.”
One of the aggressive tradies demands the drivers’ licence, presumably for insurance purposes, shortly before the video cuts out.
– with Jasmine Kazlauskas
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