12/04 @ 8pm Chislehurst Road Rage

[NiceCupOfTea]

This appeared on a local mailing list - could be spam, but could be relevant if anybody here witnessed it by chance.

Sounds nasty.

mailing list said:

A serious incident happened yesterday @ approximately 2000hrs yesterday (Monday 12th April) @ Chislehurst. Paula was driving her car from Chislehurst to her last appointment of the evening. She turned out of Manor Park Road, right, into St Paul's Cray common. As she turned into the main road, a speeding black Volkswagen Passat Registration: X7** ROA car with completely blacked out windows appeared behind her. The driver was obviously agitated that her car was not driving fast enough. The driver of the Passat pulled parallel to Paula's vehicle (a metallic burgundy Land Rover Discovery), therefore driving on the wrong side of the road. He pulled in front of her vehicle, starting to break suddenly and drive erratically in front of her vehicle. She pulled back, giving the car plenty of room to break and hoping that he would simply drive away. The car did NOT simply drive away. Paula saw the Passat turn left into Leesons hill at the roundabout. This was the direction Paula needed to go. She did consider going straight ahead and driving a long way to her destination, but because the black car had disappeared she decided to go the route she wanted to take. The black Passat was parked on the left hand side of the road just before the bus stop in Leesons Hill. Paula pulled up next to the black Passat and wound down her passenger driving window. The Passat did not move, the window did not wind down. Paula expected to see somebody get out of the car or to talk to her by winding their window down. They did not. She decided to keep on driving. Paula continued down Leesons Hill. The Passat drove right onto her bumper, then, suddenly swerved around her car and positioned itself in front of her vehicle, continuing the breaking/driving scenario. Then it sped off down the hill. Paula was driving very slowly, giving the Passat time to disappear again. Unfortunately, as she rounded the corner of the 'steep hill' before the school on the left hand side the black Passat had PARKED ACROSS the width of the road, nobody had moved out of the vehicle and the windows were still up therefore she could not see who was driving. She did not want to stop. She drove AROUND the front of the car onto the wrong side of the road where there were spaces for cars to park in front of some houses in the right hand side of the road. Paula continued, now very shaken, down the hill and gave way at the mini-roundabout. The Passat RAMMED into the back of her car. Then a black man jumped out of his car, put his hands on the front of her car and windscreen trying to pull the door open. Paula was dazed and shocked, he demanded she get out of the car and look at the damage SHE had done to HIS car. Considering he had gone into the back of her vehicle she started to open the door of her vehicle, then decided not to, but it was too late. The black man pulled her from her car into the middle of the road, then screamed at 'his girlfriend' to come and 'beat the blob up.....' she took a while getting out of the Passat and the black man was looking from the road inside Paula's car to see what she had inside it. The black woman assaulted Paula over the front of her head with some kind of weapon. This was all in broad daylight. Paula was knocked to the floor. The black woman pulled Paula's head up by her hair and banged her head repeatedly into the concrete reinforcement holding the road bollards in place in the middle of the road. Paula desperately struggled to free herself from the floor, the woman kicked her repeatedly in the stomach. Paula eventually broke one arm free from her coat and struggled up onto her feet, blood pouring from her head. She approached at least two cars which were travelling in the opposite direction, up the hill, they had stopped to look at the spectacle, one man, around 30'ish, inside his silver car with silver buttons locks by the car window. He LOCKED his car to stop Paula from climbing into his back seat to escape the derranged black woman. Paula then turned to try to run up the hill. A white man had got out of the Passat and said to Paula '....hey man.....you know......you shouldn't have stopped... you shouldn't have stopped.....'. The two men ran away from the incident over towards Chipperfield Road. The black woman drove the Passat down to the lights and turned right into the main road. Paula managed to get BACK into her car, which was still running and drove her car back home. She was 'chased' by a large white van who followed her all the way back home. She thought he was going to try and attack her too. She had a fit inside her car, outside her house, panicking. It tuned out that the man followed her, he saw everything. He wanted to make sure that she was ok. Please forward this to as many people as possible. It may reach the cowards who continued to drive on or the people who were walking around the area at the time. These people must come forward to the Police, they need as many accounts of what happened as possible. Perhaps somebody will remember the incidents further up the hill or along the common. Please - FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY RESIDENTS IN THE BROMLEY AREA AS POSSIBLE. If you see this car - Black, Volkswagen, Passat, totally blacked out windows - Registration X7** ROA. CALL THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT get out of your vehicle, if it rams you from behind, continue driving. These people are DANGEROUS and seriously wanted by the Police. It is a known vehicle and the people are 'known' to them. Please forward this to as many people as possible. The Police have taken Paula's car and clothes away for forensic tests. Her mobile is in her car with the Police. We cannot stress enough.... DO NOT GET OUT OF YOUR CAR if this car hits yours from behind. DO NOT DRIVE HOME, drive immediately to a POLICE STATION. These people are dangerous and taking drugs. They do not belong in our community, help rid Bromley of these scumm........ If you KNOW this car, or who owns it, please CALL THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY. If you know of anybody who lives along the roads mentioned, please, ask them if they have CCTV on their doors or at the front of their houses. This could be extremely vital for the police. THIS IS NOT A HOAX - Please forward this to AS MANY PEOPLE as you know in the area. It cannot be stressed enough how seriously mentally incapable and dangerous these people are. DO NOT GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE if this car rams yours.

[agent006]

I assume it would be unsympathetic to list all the things she did wrong?

[NiceCupOfTea]

Already been through that on the mailing list

- keep doors locked
- allow plenty of space when stopped in traffic
- let numpties get on with it
- DON'T wind down window to conront
- DON'T get out
- Ring 999 and drive to nearest police station.

You never know, maybe she cut him up or pulled out in front of him or was dithering or something. Having said that, I don't think she really deserved what she got though!

Somebody mentioned on the list that it's odd that there's no station mentioned or officer dealing... could be somebody trying to get back at somebody else with a chain email. Ah well...

[se6b]

Something smells very fishy with all that. Maybe its the classic use of 'THIS IS NOT A HOAX' 'PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS' that appears in all these urban myths.

[nicecupoftea]

You could well be right...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Just found this in the local rag :

www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/bromnews/display.var.588986.0.lsquodruggedup_animalsrsquo_in_road_rage_attack.php

So I'm guessing it's actually genuine

[mutt]

Given that they know all bar 2 digits of the reg no. wouldn't it be fairly easy for the BiB to check which of those 100 cars matches the description and is likely to have been in the area?

[NiceCupOfTea]

exactly what I said on the mailing list!