By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-06 19:02:49 | Updated at 2025-01-08 02:19:46
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Single mom Hailea Soares said she thought she would die after she was body-slammed in a road-rage attack.
A single mother suffered a serious head injury and broken bones after being body-slammed head first by a brute during a shocking road-rage attack — with the whole thing caught on video.
Mom-of-two Hailea Soares, 31, was driving in Attleboro, Massachusetts shortly before 9 a.m. Friday when the driver in front of her stopped short, causing the minor fender-bender, WHDH-TV News reported.
That’s when things got violent.
“He kept slamming on his brakes and then when we got to the intersection he hit a light and he was in front of me,” Soares told the outlet. “As soon as we went through we didn’t even make it across and he slammed on the brakes, so I hit him.”
Police said that’s when the other driver, identified as 26-year-old Rhode Island resident Gladior Kwesiah stormed out of his car and yanked Soares out of her vehicle.
Soares said she only wanted to take photos of the damage when her attacker grabbed her phone.
“I tried to defend myself and then he picked me up, and that was when the woman got the video of me bring thrown to the ground,” Soares said. “I remember thinking, ‘I’m in the air right now. I’m in the air.”
According to a gofundme.com page set up for the battered mom, Soares was left on the ground badly bruised and in tears, with bystanders looking on in shock.
Kweshia was booked at the scene and hit with charges of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon resulting in serious injury, malicious destruction of property and driving without a license.
He was ordered held on $25,000 bail.
Soares was taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital suffering from a broken knee, a broken foot, an injured eye socket and a serious head injury, WHDH said.
“Inappropriate and unacceptable conduct stemming from what was essentially a minor motor vehicle crash,” Attleboro Police Sgt. Kevin Sellers told the outlet.
Meanwhile, Soares said she’s just happy she was able to go home to her children.
“He was just being a jerk-off on the road,” she said in a separate interview with ABC-TV News. “I don’t know if he was having a bad day. I don’t know what that was, but if that’s the type of person he is, I don’t think he belongs in society with the rest of us.”
The gofundme.com page for Soares had raised more than $21,000 by Monday morning.
