Terrifying dash cam footage catches the moment a motorist is stopped by a hooded man
The haunting footage, caught on the man’s dashboard camera, shows a four-wheel drive blocking the intersection when an eerie-looking hooded man steps forward and then stands side on to the car with his head down.
As the unsure motorist slows down, the man lunges forward and screams towards the car when the shocked driver immediately puts his foot down and speeds away.As if the bizarre ordeal wasn’t frightening enough, the rattled motorist tried to call his wife, who was driving about a minute behind him with her girlfriend, but he couldn’t make contact to warn her.
The unaware ladies were forced to encounter the same horrific experience.The man’s wife, who wished to remain anonymous, said they were still shaken up by the frightening episode and wanted to know the motive behind the unusual incident.‘I almost stopped before I could go around this guy, and as we went past he just lunged at our door,’ the woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Newcastle Herald.’
We still don’t know what he was trying to do, whether he was trying to rob us, was he trying to take our car or was he trying to hurt us.'Police canvassed the area and found a man sleeping inside a silver Mitsubishi Triton on Hebburn Road, Elrington.The man was charged with drug possession after officers found a small amount of crystal methylamphetamine, otherwise known as ice, while searching the car.