‘Tesla Road Rage Guy’ Accused of Attack in Hawaii

• Nathaniel Walter Radimak, previously imprisoned for multiple violent road rage incidents in California, was arrested in Hawaii on accusations he assaulted two more people in a road rage incident
• The altercation began when an 18-year-old told Radimak to slow down while he was driving, police say
• Radimak, dubbed the “Tesla road rage guy” on social media, was on parole after recently being released from prison in August 2024

A man previously imprisoned and paroled after a series of violent road rage attacks where he assaulted several people in Southern California, was arrested in Hawaii on accusations of another road rage incident. 

Nathaniel Walter Radimak, 39, was speeding in a gray Tesla on May 7, when he allegedly exchanged words with an 18-year-old who was with her mom in a parked car, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing the Honolulu Police Department. 

Radimak then got out of his vehicle and allegedly assaulted the 18-year-old and her 35-year-old mother before fleeing the scene, police said. He was arrested on charges of third-degree assault, unauthorized entry into a vehicle and contempt of court, per the outlet.

Diane Ung, the mother involved in the incident, told KABC-TV that she was teaching her teenage daughter how to parallel park when Radimak’s Tesla sped past them. 

Ung alleged to the outlet that Radimak almost clipped her daughter with his car, and in response, the daughter yelled out, “Slow down.”

Surveillance video showed the Tesla driver make a U-turn and yell at the 18-year-old whose baby was asleep in the car, KABC-TV reported. Ung told the outlet that Radimak demanded she repeat herself before reaching in the car and punching her daughter in the face.

Ung got out of the car to defend her daughter, she told the outlet. “I had a coffee in my hand, my iced 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 said, adding that she fell to the ground before Radimak took off in his car.  

Radimak’s recent arrest comes less than a year after he was released from prison for attacking eight people with a metal pipe in Southern California in 2023 in confrontations that began when he was in his Tesla, CBS Los Angeles reported. He was sentenced to five years in prison but was released less than a year later. 

Video surveillance captured Radimak’s attack in Glendale, Calif., on Jan. 11, 2023, when he stopped his car in traffic, got out and struck another car with a pipe, the outlet reported. Other victims had similar stories of a man in a Tesla who would randomly attack their vehicles with a pipe. He was dubbed “Tesla road rage guy” on social media. 

Gloria Allred, an attorney representing several of the Los Angeles victims, told KABC-TV that the latest alleged attack was inevitable, adding that Radimak could be extradited to California for violating his parole.

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“This is someone who apparently remains dangerous, who has not learned his lesson,” Allred told the local outlet. 

Police records list Radimak in custody with charges pending, the outlets reported. It’s not clear if Radimak has an attorney and could not immediately be reached by PEOPLE.