Dash cams show a lot. Crashes, scams, and profoundly awful driving are common subjects of dash cam videos. Sometimes, however, they capture crimes, like road rage and assaults. In this case, a dash cam captured a Russian driver with road rage as another motorist blasts him in the face with pepper spray– twice. 

A video shows a Ford Focus driver with road rage getting pepper sprayed not once, but twice by a motorist with a dash cam

Road rage is no joke. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), road rage instances are good for around 30 murders per year. Worse yet, nearly 40% of aggravated driving incidents involve a firearm. However, road rage isn’t uniquely American, and it doesn’t require a firearm to be dangerous.

A dash cam video shows a silver Ford Focus hatchback with what appear to be Russian number plates. The Focus speeds ahead of the camera car and proceeds to brake-check them. Not very cool. The Ford hatchback stops completely in the middle of the road, forcing the vehicle with the dash cam to all but park on the road.

A moment later, the Focus driver, overwhelmed with petty road rage, emerges to confront the other driver. Although, from what happens next, he likely wishes he hadn’t. The driver crosses over to the driver’s side window of the camera vehicle. A spray of aerosol covers the inside of the windshield. The driver in the camera car had pepper sprayed the would-be assailant in the face and mouth.

Immediately after the first blast, the brake-checker stumbles away, clutching his eyes. The attacker, however, hadn’t learned his lesson quite yet. He opens his trunk, looking for a weapon. But right then, the other driver pepper-sprays him again. The angry driver got his tool and struck the camera vehicle. However, the damage was done, and the man gave up quickly. 

It’s a road rage lesson that the Ford Focus driver learned the hard way. Fortunately, it wasn’t a firearm. However, oleoresin capsicum spray, or OC spray, is a painful, debilitating defensive tool. Law enforcement often uses it to stop hostile people in their tracks. It’s also an effective personal defense device in states that permit it by causing involuntary closing of the eyes. One thing is for sure: after two sprays, that road-rage driver wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon.