Rage Behind the Wheel: Nine Years for Road Rage

0:00On April 22nd, a 26-year-old taxi driver named Hassan Muhammad just got hit with a 9-year prison sentence for ramming his car into a family in a fit of road rage. It happened outside a restaurant in Newcastle, leaving a grandfather with brutal injuries like a shattered shoulder that needed replacing with a prosthetic plus brakes in his leg and spine. The trouble kicked off last September 14th when the family crossed the street after dinner. Someone chucked a lollipop at his passing, scoda, because he was hauling too fast. Instead of brushing it off, he swung a U-turn, punched it to 33 miles per hour in a 30-zone, and aimed right at them, kids and all. That grandfather's world flipped upside down. He can't run his businesses anymore, needs help dressing and washing, and misses out on grandpa duties. With his one-year-old grandson, his daughter called it a nightmare that turned their normal night out into pure horror, watching him become a shell of himself while the family deals. With non-stop trauma, judges and prosecutors labored it, deliberate revenge, not some accident,

1:06even though Muhammad had no record and folks described him as polite and, gentle. He owned up to dangerous driving, but got convicted on intent to cause serious harm charges too, plus a 12-and-a-half-year driving ban. One split-second rage turned a hardworking man's life to ruins, hitting everyone around him just as hard-proof tempers, and tons of metal don't mix.