A single mother in Massachusetts was left with serious injuries after a shocking road-rage attack that was caught on camera, New York Post reported.
Hailea Soares, 31, suffered a head injury and multiple broken bones after being body-slammed by another driver in Attleboro on Friday morning.
Soares, a mother of two, was driving in the area shortly before 9 am when the driver ahead of her abruptly stopped, leading to a minor collision between the two vehicles. According to Soares, the situation quickly escalated when the other driver, 26-year-old Gladior Kwesiah from Rhode Island, repeatedly slammed on his brakes. “He kept slamming on his brakes and then when we got to the intersection, he hit a light and he was in front of me,” Soares told WHDH-TV News. “As soon as we went through, we didn’t even make it across and he slammed on the brakes, so I hit him.”
This is when the violent attack began. Police said that Kwesiah stormed out of his car and forcibly removed Soares from her vehicle. Soares, who only intended to take photos of the damage, said Kwesiah grabbed her phone and threw her to the ground. “I tried to defend myself and then he picked me up, and that was when the woman got the video of me being thrown to the ground,” she said. “I remember thinking, ‘I’m in the air right now. I’m in the air.’”
The brutal attack was filmed by a witness, and Soares was left on the ground with multiple injuries. A GoFundMe page set up for Soares described her as being bruised and in tears as bystanders looked on in shock.
Kwesiah was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon resulting in serious injury, malicious destruction of property, and driving without a license. He was held on $25,000 bail.
Soares was rushed to Sturdy Memorial Hospital, where she was treated for a broken knee, a broken foot, an injured eye socket, and a serious head wound.
Despite her injuries, Soares said she was just glad she could return home to her children. “He was just being a jerkoff on the road,” she said in a separate interview with ABC-TV News. “I don’t know if he was having a bad day. I don’t know what that was, but if that’s the type of person he is, I don’t think he belongs in society with the rest of us.”
