Two years ago, Nathaniel Radimak, a Tesla owner from Southern California, became well-known for his documented history of assaulting other drivers. He committed two assaults in California, the second of which led to his arrest and imprisonment on many felony charges.
Dash cameras captured him stepping out of a Tesla, threatening drivers, and smashing their vehicles with a weapon. It placed him in prison.
Radimak’s release from prison occurred more than 400 days before the end of his sentence. Just a few months after his release from prison for assault, Radimak assaulted someone once more, leading police to arrest him in Hawaii this morning. Again, he was driving a Tesla.
As with the previous two occurrences, cameras captured him in excellent resolution.
A teen was his latest victim
This Article Includes
Diane Ung, a 35-year-old Honolulu resident, was teaching her 18-year-old daughter how to parallel park downtown when Radimak was driving past them in a gray Tesla. Her infant granddaughter was sleeping in the backseat.
The first thing Ung noticed was that he was travelling well over the speed limit and almost hit her daughter while she was attempting to park. Her daughter was shocked and called him out.
“[He was driving] maybe 40, 50 down the street and almost clipped her,” Ung told ABC7. “And then her big mouth, you know, local people gonna yell out their window. She said, ‘Slow down.’”
Radimak was caught on security cameras doing a U-turn to approach Ung and her adolescent daughter. Ung remembers Radimak being extremely angry, shouting, “What the f*** did you say to me? Say it back to me.
He stayed true to his reputation and began the assault
Ung stated that Radimak approached her daughter’s window and instantly became violent.
“Then he got closer to my daughter’s window, reached in and punched her in her face,” she recalled. Ung got out of the car to defend her teenage daughter, and Radimak struck her, too.
Security cameras captured the whole thing.
“I had my coffee in my hand, my iced 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,” said Ung. “I fell down to the ground, big gash in my head.”
Police apprehended the enraged Tesla driver the next day
The next day, once the police were contacted, he was detained. Authorities charged him with two counts of assault and unauthorized entry into a car.
Gloria Allred, an attorney who represents the majority of his victims in Southern California, called his release a mistake. And his time in prison taught him nothing valuable.
“This is someone who apparently remains dangerous, who has not learned his lesson,” she said.
In addition, he might face extradition to California for breaking parole.
