Feb 24, 2007 6:30 am US/Eastern
Brooklyn Sees Likely First Case Of 'Driveway' Rage
Man Accused Of Bashing Pregnant Woman's Knee With Car
by Ti-Hua Chang
BROOKLYN (CBS) ―
Forget road rage. Here's a story about a case of "driveway" rage in Midwood. A man in is accused of repeatedly hitting a pregnant woman with his car after she complained it was blocking her driveway.
Michelle Hagler is nine moths pregnant, yet Wednesday morning police charge a man intentionally drove his car into her.
Not just once, but several times.
Hagler, a lawyer, was leaving for work when she found a car blocking her driveway. She called 311 while standing in front of the car. The driver walked up, got into his car and lurched forward into her striking her knee several times.
"He kept pushing the car forward and I said, 'I am here, I am pregnant,'" Hagler said. "And I keep moving as he's hitting me. He'd gotten me to the point where I was like, next to his car and I was holding onto it. Then he managed at that moment to just go around me."
He never stopped.
The 311 operator heard the screams and transferred the call to 911. Police arrested the driver of the car, 64-year-old Shlomo Fine of Ocean Parkway.
"He's been arrested today," NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said. "That was for leaving the scene of an accident."
The alleged driver would only speak to us through his door.
"My lawyer says I cannot talk to anyone," Fine said.
Hagler's baby was not injured.
"I can just image that if I had actually fallen to the floor, he probably would have rolled over me," Hagler said. "I'm convinced of it because if wouldn't stop after hitting me three times..."
Fine was released without bail after being charged with assault, menacing and reckless endangerment. If found guilty, he faces up to seven years in jail.
A Brooklyn grand jury is already investigating the case.
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