Road rage man got into truck and threatened driver

A road rage incident got out of control when a man climbed into the cab of a truck, punched the driver, snatched his phone, and threatened that he would have stabbed him in the throat if he had a knife.

Detective Garda Tom Ryan said that at the height of the road rage, arising out of an exchange on the road earlier, Michael Hayes climbed into a lorry driver’s cab and attacked him while he was in traffic at MacCurtain St, Fermoy, Co Cork, on June 18.

At Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday, Judge David Riordan imposed a two-year sentence with the last 15 months suspended on Hayes, aged 28, of Cappa White, Nenagh, Co Tipperary.