Influencer's windscreen smashed in wild road rage act
Video footage has captured the scary moment a New Zealand influencer's windscreen got smashed in a wild road rage incident.
Social media influencer Chantelle Baker claimed that the blue Mazda Demio had cut off another car behind her and began tailgating her when she was driving 40km/hr as she was carefully navigating a near-crash.
“They started to scream at me from their car, trying to indicate [and] use their hands to tell me to pull over so they could go past,” she said in a video posted to Instagram.
“I obviously didn’t. We go a few hundred metres and they decide to throw a rock at my car with my eight-month-old baby asleep in the back seat.”
Baker said she saw them down a side road a couple of minutes later and followed their car to get the licence plate.
She then recalled them pulling into an area near an old petrol station in Rangiora, Waimakariri, where the footage was filmed.
In the viral clip, which has racked up over seven million views on TikTok, the two women can be seen exiting the Mazda and sprinting towards Baker's car.
One of them ran up the bonnet and on to the windscreen causing it to shatter.
The same woman then goes to the driver's door and tells Baker to "f*** off".
Baker then reverses and drives away.
New Zealand Police have said that they were aware of the incident and are in the initial stages of investigation.
“Police received reports of an incident in the King Street area around 1pm on Saturday where one driver apparently followed another driver after a car failed to merge correctly,” they told news.com.au.
“The cars have stopped at a petrol station where a person has reportedly got out and jumped on the other person’s vehicle, breaking a window. No people were injured.”
In an update shared on Instagram, Baker said that the two girls have come forward and are speaking with Police.
Images: Instagram/ Chantelle Baker