Police have confirmed investigations are underway after a road rage incident that happened 21 August outside the German School in Parktown. A man was stabbed three times, while another suffered several injuries. Parkview Police spokesperson Sergeant Lloyd Ramovha said no arrests have yet been made, as only one statement had been collected from the parties involved. He added that both men were taken to Netcare Milpark Hospital for treatment and that the Chevrolet driver was discharged from the hospital that evening.
The driver of the Chevrolet, who is the father of a girl at the school, spoke under condition of anonymity. He said that the incident started when he cut off the driver of the motorcycle at an intersection earlier, close to Napier Bridge.
“I apologised to the biker but he wouldn’t hear me out, he started cussing me out on the passenger side where my daughter was sitting, and broke my side mirror,” he said. He admitted to bumping the bike from the back with his front tyre and proceeded to drive his daughter to school.
Unbeknown to him, the biker followed him to the school where an altercation ensued. He said while he was dropping his daughter off at the school’s gate, the biker came up from behind him and allegedly attacked him. “I heard my daughter call out my name and another woman screaming out in alarm and that’s when I was hit at the back of my head and again several times,” he added.
He said they fought and were separated by security personnel, after which he took his daughter inside the schools premises. The single father added that when he returned to his car, the biker had allegedly vandalised his car inside and outside.
“I saw that the biker had cracked the windscreen of my car and had smashed the dashboard. I got very angry and proceeded to go and talk to him when we got into another scuffle and that’s when I was stabbed.”
He pointed out that his daughter was traumatised by the incident and that he had booked her for a counselling session as she was now too afraid to go to school.
The biker, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, accused the Chevrolet driver of almost causing an accident prior to him being cut off by the driver. He added that the car driver gestured at him with a tyre iron and threatened to hit him with it. The biker admitted to stabbing the car driver, but said that it was in self-defence.
“I sustained a dislocated collarbone and sustained several bruises to my arms, neck and knees,” he said.
