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Notorious Calif. Tesla road rage driver allegedly assaults 2 in Hawaii

By Olivia Hebert,
News Reporter
May 12, 2025


FILE: A gray Tesla sedan. A 39-year-old Tesla driver was arrested in Hawaii after allegedly assaulting another driver.
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A notorious Southern California Tesla driver responsible for multiple road rage incidents allegedly attacked a mother and daughter in Honolulu, according to reports. On Wednesday, 35-year-old mother Diane Ung had been teaching her daughter, 18, how to parallel park on Halekauwila Street when a driver in a gray Tesla allegedly sped past and nearly clipped them in the process. Her daughter responded by yelling “slow down” from her window, Ung told KABC-TV.

Little did they know the driver was allegedly 39-year-old Nathaniel Radimak — widely known for getting arrested following a string of road rage attacks in Southern California and then sentenced to five years in jail in 2023. He ultimately served less than a year due to jail overcrowding.

Surveillance footage broadcast by KABC-TV appears to show Radimak making a U-turn and getting out of his car to scream at Ung’s daughter, who had a sleeping baby in the back seat. Ung told KABC-TV he walked up to her daughter’s window, reaching in to punch her in the face.

At that point, Ung said, she got out to defend her daughter but was met with curses and violence. … “I had my coffee in my hand, my ice coffee from McDonald’s, threw it at his car, and he came running across the street, struck me like a Superman punch right inside my face,” Ung told the outlet. “I fell down to the ground, big gash in my head.”

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