Notorious California Tesla highway rage driver assaulted by inmates in Hawaii jail

By Dean Fioresi, KCAL, KCBS

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Nathaniel Radimak, infamously often known as the “Tesla road rage guy,” was hospitalized on Wednesday after he was attacked by a number of inmates at Hālawa Correctional Facility in Honolulu, Hawaii.

He was being held there after his arrest for attacking two ladies of their automotive on Might 7, when he exchanged phrases with an 18-year-old girl earlier than assaulting her and her 35-year-old mom. He then fled from the realm in a Tesla, the identical sort of auto he gained his status for in Southern California.

Radimak was arrested the subsequent day on suspicion of unauthorized entry right into a motorcar and first-degree assault for the incident. He not too long ago appeared in court docket

“At approximately 4:25 p.m. Monday, May 12, 2025, Nathaniel Radimak was allegedly assaulted by other inmates in the housing unit at the Hālawa Correctional Facility,” stated a press release from the Hawaii Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “He sustained injuries to his face and torso and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.”

A photograph exhibits Radimak sitting within the foyer of a hospital in Hawaii with accidents to his face.

The 38-year-old man was sentenced in Oct. 2023 to 5 years in jail for a sequence of highway rage assaults on Southern California freeways courting again to 2020, a lot of which concerned his wielding a metallic pipe. He was launched lower than a yr later, nonetheless, after receiving credit score for 424 days served, almost 250 days for time spent in county jail throughout trial and 212 days for good conduct, in accordance with lawyer Gloria Allred.

Hawaii DCR investigators are trying into the assault.

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