The man who went viral for a road rage stunt where he king-hit a woman has spoken out for the first time, saying that he was the victim.
Clint Pollard was captured on camera punching 22-year-old Bianca Sams during a shocking road rage incident at Lake Munmorah on the Central Coast last July.
In an interview, the 42-year-old told Sunday Night that his encounter with the young woman was self-defence.
Clint Pollard (pictured), 42, said that he was the victim and that his action was self-defence in the viral video
Bianca Sams (pictured) can be seen hanging out of the vehicle’s passenger side-door and laughing as she hurls nails towards Pollard in the video
The confronting footage shows Pollard walking up to the young mother as she’s standing outside her car with her arms folded.
He then swings his right arm and hits her in the face.
Although he feels bad about ‘having to raise his hard to a girl’, Pollard said that he was genuinely concerned for his safety at the time.
‘The truth is that I was attacked that day, I was the victim,’ he said.
Prior to the shocking moment, Pollard was driving to the beach on a road that dropped from 80km/h to 60km/h.
After slowing down to the legal speed limit, Clint said that the car behind him, containing Sams, her girlfriend Taylor Bembridge and Bembridge’s baby, began to sound the horn and flash their lights.
Thinking they were in a rush, Pollard let the car speed past him.
In the video, Sams can be seen hanging out of the vehicle’s passenger side-door and laughing as she hurls nails towards Pollard’s ute
Moments later, Bembridge stops the car at a set of lights, which gave Sams the opportunity to step out of the car with her arms crossed as Clint approaches.
He unleashes a sickening punch that jolts Sams’ head backwards and into the car door window.
‘I had no choice but to act in self-defence,’ he said.
Pollard was let off with a three-year good behaviour bond and was fined $900 for assaulting Sams (pictured)
Once he started to walk back to his car, Bembridge put the car in reverse and went to hit Pollard, who luckily stepped out of the way just in time.
‘She was trying to run me over, she was deadset trying to kill me,’ he told Sunday Night.
Pollard drives away thinking the ordeal is over, yet the ladies begin to chase him.
Sams is sitting with half her body out of the car once again, and throws a chisel at Pollard’s car, smashing the glass in his face.
Triumphant, the girls then drove off and boasted about the incident on social media.
When the girls went home, they posted Sams’ injuries to social media (pictured) and boasted about the incident
‘I was throwing nails at his car, then threw a chisel at his car, haha eye for an eye,’ the comments on Facebook said.
Sams was charged for provoking the incident and was sentenced to 360 hours of community service.
Pollard was given a three-year good behaviour bond and was fined $900.