Some people just shouldn’t be allowed behind the wheel of an automobile. Many of us will have seen otherwise mild-mannered and calm individuals transform into fury elementals when they perceive some kind of slight on the road and “road rage” bites, but this one guy might be the worst of them all.
Enter Nathaniel Radimak, who has just been sentenced to 7 years in prison after a brutal road rage attack in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2025. Cops reported that an 18-year-old woman was being taught how to parallel park by her 35-year-old mother, Diane Ung, when Radimak’s gray Tesla began speeding down the street.
⚖️HAWAII vs Nathaniel Radimak⚖️ Sentenced to 7 years in prison "Repeated road rage suspect"
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Radimak was speeding in his gray Tesla past an 18-year-old woman who was attempting to parallel park.The Assault: After words were exchanged regarding his dangerous driving, Radimak turned… pic.twitter.com/sTI76ghwEI
The daughter yelled, “Slow down!”, Radimak emerged from his vehicle and struck the teen girl in the face. As Ung explained:
“Halfway in his car already, and he says, ‘What did you say to me? You better shut your face before, you know, I come and do that the same thing I did to her … 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. I fell down to the ground. Big gash in my head.”
It’s a horrible incident, though, incredibly, Radimak committed this assault while on parole after serving only 10 months of a five-year prison sentence for a string of assaults on other drivers.
“You better shut your face”
In 2023, Radimak made the news when an alarming video of him was posted online of him stopping in the middle of a California freeway and attacking other cars with a metal pipe.
A Tesla driver infamous for a series of road rage attacks caught on camera in Southern California has been sentenced to seven years in prison after he was convicted in a similar case in Hawaii. https://t.co/Syrx9wMqRL pic.twitter.com/TLp1ndFhsR
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That came after a string of other random attacks on individuals, many of which involved the same metal pipe. In what might be a telling aside, cops also discovered steroids and more than $30,000 in his car. His defense also argues that he has undiagnosed schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and PTSD.
At sentencing for the Honolulu incident, Radimak admitted he needed treatment, with Hawaii News Now reporting that he said:
I take accountability. I just feel bad about it. It shouldn’t have happened, but I really need a certain kind of treatment that is being prolonged and farther away. It’s not helping me, but I take accountability.”
That said, it doesn’t appear that he’s going to have an easy time behind bars, as it appears he was attacked by fellow inmates while in jail in Hawaii.
Either way, Radimak should count himself lucky he didn’t kill anyone during one of his violent attacks. Here’s hoping this stint behind bars gives him some time to reflect and get a grip on his temper. Whatever else happens, I don’t envy that anger management counsellor.
Published: May 27, 2026 10:19 am