A man already infamous for violent road rage attacks has learned his fate after a frightening confrontation in Hawaii, where he attacked a mother and her teenage daughter while they were practicing parallel parking.
Nathaniel Radimak, 39, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading no contest to unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle and two counts of third-degree assault, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He will receive credit for about one year already served.
The shocking attack happened on May 7, 2025, on Halekauwila Street in Honolulu.
A mother, Diane Ung, said she and her teenage daughter were practicing parking when a Tesla sped past them and nearly hit them. Her daughter yelled, “Slow down.”
That was apparently enough to set the driver off.
Ung told KABC that the Tesla made a U-turn and Radimak came toward them.
“What the f— did you say to me?” he allegedly demanded. “Say it back to me.”
Surveillance footage reportedly showed Radimak lunging at the vehicle and appearing to punch the daughter in the face before walking away.
Ung said she got out of the vehicle to defend her daughter, but the situation only escalated. She had an iced coffee from McDonald’s in her hand and threw it at his car.
That is when, she said, Radimak came charging back across the street.
“He came running across the street, struck me like [a] Superman punch right inside my face,” Ung said.
She fell to the ground and suffered a large gash to her head.
Radimak then drove away, according to reports. After the attack, Ung and her daughter checked on the younger woman’s baby, who was also with them at the time.
But Radimak was not exactly unknown to police.
Before the Hawaii attack, he had already become notorious in California for a string of road rage incidents dating back to January 2020. In some of those cases, he was also driving a Tesla. In one widely reported incident, he was accused of using a metal pipe during a confrontation.
In 2023, Radimak was sentenced to five years behind bars in a California case, but he was paroled after serving less than one year.
After moving to Hawaii, authorities said the violent behavior continued. In addition to the attack on Ung and her daughter, he reportedly threatened a woman inside a Planet Fitness gym and took a swing at her.
At sentencing, Radimak said he regretted what happened.
“This was not on the agenda that day, like I said, I regret it,” he said, according to Hawaii News Now. “I take accountability. I just feel bad about it.”
Only 7 years?