Dramatic footage captures police minister in a VERY heated exchange with a 17-year-old P-plate driver after a minor traffic incident
- David Elliot was with his wife when the teenage boy allegedly clipped his Lexus
- An argument then broke out at a set of traffic lights and was filmed by Mrs Elliot
- The police minister claimed the 17-year-old P-plater called his wife a c***
David Elliot was driving with his wife when 17-year-old boy allegedly clipped his Lexus
Dramatic footage shows the heated exchange between the police minister and a teenage P-plater following a minor traffic incident.
Police minister David Elliot was driving Windsor Road in Baulkham Hills, north-west Sydney, with his wife on October 27 last year when 17-year-old boy allegedly clipped his Lexus.
Both cars then drove towards Castle Hill where an argument broke out at a set of traffic lights.
Mr Elliot said the driver, who has not been identified, called his wife a c*** before she began filming the altercation on her phone.
The New South Wales minister and his wife could be heard telling the driver to ‘get out of the car’.
The driver replied, ‘Don’t f***ing film me,’ before reaching for her phone.
Mrs Elliott said: ‘Don’t touch my phone. I’m filming you because you hit us and you didn’t get out of your car.
‘I was in the middle of the lane buddy,’ the teenager said.
The P-plater said the Elliot’s were to blame – a claim they fiercely denied.
‘I was in the middle of the f***ing lane, you came across on me,’ he said.
‘We didn’t,’ the couple replied.
The teenager claimed Mr Elliot and his wife were to blame for the minor traffic incident – a claim they denied
According to 7 News, the minister allegedly told the boy he ‘worked for the cops’, but when asked to show his badge, Mr Elliot replied: ‘I pay for badges, I don’t get one.’
He could also be heard asking for the P-plater’s licence in the video.
The teenager’s father accused Mr Elliot of chasing his son down, grabbing him by the arm and verbally abusing him, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The minister denied the claims and the video does not show him touching the boy.
The teenager’s father accused Mr Elliot of chasing his son down, grabbing him by the arm and verbally abusing him (pictured: the teenager during the altercation)
Mr Elliot was cleared by a police last year after an independent review and has stood by his actions on the day.
‘I just think when someone sideswipes your family car and calls your wife a c***, there’s going to be a natural reaction,’ Elliott told the network.
‘When you see that sort of language from a young person you do feel a level of disappointment and I wasn’t going to cop it.’