AND Massachusetts mother of two was seriously injured after a man pulled her out of her car and slammed her head first during a road rage incident captured on video after a minor bumper hit.
Hailea Soares, 31, was driving in Attleboro, Mass., around 9 a.m. Friday when she rear-ended the driver in front of her, who stopped suddenly, according to reports WHDH-TV News.
“He kept hitting the brakes and when we got to the intersection, he hit the light and was in front of me,” Soares told the newspaper. – As soon as we passed, we didn’t even manage to cross, and he braked, so I hit him.
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Hailea Soares, 31, suffered serious injuries when she was hit on the body during the attack on the road on Friday. (WFXT)
Then Gladior Kwesiah, a 26-year-old resident of Rhode Island pulled Soares from her vehicleaccording to the Attleboro Police Department.
When Soares tried to take photos of the damage to her vehicle, the assailant ripped her phone away, she said.
“I tried to defend myself and then he picked me up and that’s when the woman got video of me being thrown to the ground,” she told WHDH. “I remember thinking, ‘I’m in the air right now. I’m in the air’.”
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Gladior Kwesiah, a 26-year-old Rhode Island resident, pulled Soares from her vehicle after she hit the bumper and assaulted her, according to the Attleboro Police Department. (Handout/Attleboro Police)
Soares was taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital for a broken knee, broken foot, injured eye socket and serious head wound, according to WHDH.
Kwesiah was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon resulting in serious injury, malicious destruction of property and driving without a license, according to the Attleboro Police Department. He is being held on $25,000 bail.
Attleboro Police Sergeant Kevin Sellers told WHDH that the incident was “inappropriate and unacceptable behavior stemming from what was essentially a minor motor vehicle accident.”
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Gladior Kwesiah was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon resulting in serious injury, malicious destruction of property and driving without a license, the Attleboro Police Department said. (Handout/Attleboro Police)
Soares said she was just happy to have survived the attack.
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“He was just being a jerk — on the road,” she said in one interview with ABC-TV News. “I don’t know if he had a bad day. I don’t know what it was, but if he’s that type of person, I don’t think he belongs with the rest of us.”
A GoFundMe initiative for Soares’ medical expenses had raised nearly $29,000 as of Tuesday afternoon.
