The serial Tesla road-rage driver who landed back behind bars for allegedly assaulting a teen driver and her mother in Hawaii last week was found beaten to a bloody pulp in prison.
Nathaniel Radimak, 39, was assaulted by inmates at Halawa Correctional Facility around 4:25 p.m. Monday, the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told ABC 7.
“Nathaniel Radimak was allegedly assaulted by other inmates in a housing unit at the Halawa Correctional Facility,” public information officer Rosemarie Bernardo said.
The hot-headed driver “sustained injuries to his face and torso” and was taken to the Queen’s Medical Center for treatment.
Radimak was photographed wearing his orange prison jumpsuit in a hospital wheelchair with a badly bruised and bloody face following the alleged assault.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said it is investigating the incident.
The back story:
Radimak’s assault comes after he was arrested May 8 for losing his temper and allegedly becoming violent with another motorist.
Radimak — who has been out on parole since August after he served only 10 months of a five-year prison sentence — was speeding in a gray Tesla in downtown Honolulu when he raced past an 18-year-old driver parking her car on Halekauwila Street on May 7.
The female teen driver yelled at Radimak to “slow down” as he sped by them, prompting him to get out of the vehicle and start arguing with her and her mother.
The girl’s mother, Diane Ung, estimated that Radimak was driving around 40 to 50 miles per hour as she was trying to teach her daughter how to parallel park outside their home.
Ung claimed Radimak struck her and her daughter in the face during the confrontation before he got back in his Tesla and fled.
“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,’” Ung told KITV.
“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.”
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Radimak made headlines as the pipe-wielding Tesla driver who terrorized California highways over the years.
In one viral video, Radimak jumped out of his charcoal-colored 2022 Tesla Model X with no license plates, armed with a pipe, and pummeled the truck behind him on Jan. 11, 2023.
Another victim of Radimak’s rage, identified as Gracia, had a run-in with Radimak in November 2022 at a storage facility in Los Angeles when the Tesla-driving maniac began unprovokedly harassing her and followed her in his car after she tried to escape.
Recording the encounter for her safety, Radimak yelled at Garcia to go back to “where you came from” and hurled expletives at her after catching up to her before fleeing.
He was arrested in February 2023 after several dashcams captured him attacking vehicles on highways in Southern California.
He was charged with four counts each of assault by means of force to produce great bodily injury and criminal threats, and one felony count of vandalism.
(This might explain some of his behavior, eh? “During his arrest, police found nearly $30,000 worth of steroids in his car.
