A woman filmed the terrifying moment she thought she was being followed by a male driver after he erupted at her in an unprovoked road rage attack.
Viktorya Marie, 30, was driving home from work on a rainy day in NSW and said she was sitting behind a car that was travelling below the speed limit.
‘[It was] raining, like peak traffic and there’s cars behind me and he’s braking, trying to get me to ram up the back of him, or other cars to ram up the back of me,’ she said in a TikTok video.
‘The guy was literally trying to get me to follow him and pull over. Like he was being so aggressive with his hand gestures.’
Ms Marie appeared visibly shaken as she held her face and fought back tears.
She said the angry driver kept gesturing for her to pull over.
‘He just kept indicating for me to follow him and pull over, and I was like “no, like I’m not doing that”, that is so unsafe,’ Ms Marie said.
She said she notified the police to the driver and they told her to contact them if she thought he was still following her.
An Aussie woman said male drivers can become extraordinarily aggressive towards women on the road
‘I’m shaking, I called the police and everything. It was that bad. I’ve never experienced that in my life,’ she said.
‘I’m scared he’s following me.’
Ms Marie said it was a common experience for female drivers.
‘As soon as (men) see it’s a female, they want to get all high and mighty and want to abuse the chick,’ she said.
Other social media users said they had faced similar incidents in the comments.
‘So many violent, tormented men in this world. So sad this has to happen while you’re innocently just driving to get home safely,’ one woman wrote.
‘[This] has happened to me a lot, [as] a girl on her P’s,’ another girl wrote.
‘Man or woman there’s no excuse for road rage like that towards someone and make them feel unsafe,’ another viewer said.
She said men get ‘high and mighty’ when road-raging against female drivers on Aussie roads
‘So glad you didn’t pull over and smart that you were cautious to not go straight home,’ another woman added.
One young woman said she’d been confronted in a similar incident to a horrifying end.
‘I had someone follow me home and smash my window with a hammer all because I wasn’t doing 30km/h over like they wanted to. I’ve never been so scared in my life it was messed up,’ she said
Last year a Melbourne CEO said she was innocently walking down a busy road in the city when two men left her feeling unsafe in her own country.
Co-founder and CEO of health and wellness app Kic, Laura Henshaw, said two men in a car purposely slowed down their car to yell lewd comments about her body.
Ms Henshaw said she was initially ‘p***** off’ by the men’s catcall but was shocked when they repeated the act three more times along an 800m stretch of road.
In a video posted to TikTok, Ms Henshaw said she felt like the first time the men tried to get her attention they ‘almost thought it was a compliment’.
She added that her experience showed men felt entitled enough to impulsively yell at strangers.
Ms Henshaw said she felt increasingly unsafe as the pair continued to make comments such as ‘you look good’ toward her.
‘Let me tell you, calling me ‘sexy baby’ (from) the car doesn’t make me feel good,’ she told followers.
The young businesswoman said the act makes women feel ‘unsafe … violated … (and) objectified’.
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