An Australian woman has been left with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a man attacked her car with a pick-axe.
The victim, who can't be identified, told Yahoo7 News she was driving in Sydney when she passed another car which was being driven erratically.
She took out her phone and filmed the vehicle, at which point the female driver and male passenger noticed and filmed her in return before they began following her car.
The two cars eventually pulled over to the side of the road, at which point the man and woman got out and began threatening her.
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Both people swore and yelled at her, and a bottle was thrown at her car. The woman also claims the man punched her in the head.
The violence escalated from there, with the man taking a pickaxe from his vehicle and smashing the woman's window and windscreen while screaming expletives. Despite her terror, she managed to film the entire ordeal.
"I think he was absolutely trying to hurt me or kill me," she told Yahoo7 News.
"I remember thinking 'I cannot believe this is the way I am going to die'."
Once the man had totalled her car, he and the driver got back in their vehicle and drove off.
The victim was left with bruising and PTSD, as well as a written-off car that will cost thousands to replace.
She says she wants her attacker to get help so he doesn't do the same to anyone else.
A 34-year-old man was arrested and charged in relation to the crime. He has not entered a plea and is due back in court in December.
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