It just boggles my mind to see this pure and simple road rage incident blamed on a guy who made a mistake in traffic. There was no incident until Driver #2 decided to make one.
There is no justification in what happened for driver #2 to leave his vehicle and vent his spleen.
Read the definition.
In law, assault is a crime causing a victim to fear violence. The term is often confused with battery, which is the actual "touching". The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more limited sense of a threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force
Driver #2 committed a prosecutable crime. He committed assault.
Driver #1 committed no crime, and he would have been justified in gunning #2 down like a diseased dog if he had become physically violent.
One more time, let's go back to the beginning. #1 angered #2 by getting confused. #2 left his car, confronted #1, and
made him afraid of imminent violence
That, for everyone's benefit, is, and always has been, defined and prosecutable as assault.
Sure, none of you guys are afraid of bigger guys, and all of that, so it's irrelevant. And none of you guys would ever do something wrong, like go into the wrong lane. And some of you guys, it seems, would even tell #2 to go stuff his head in a shredder. From the looks of it, there is a lot of ill feeling and just plain enmity against the OP just because he made a mistake and took someone else's place in line. I'm getting the strong sense that there are many people here who honestly think that he deserved a butt kicking for a traffic screw up, and that if someone makes a mistake, it is the duty of the citizenry to engage in vigilantism.
Some of the things I've read here are sheer idiocy. I'm giving up. Maybe the OP should give up too. Regardless of how many people agree with his actions, some minds just won't accept something they don't want to believe.
And seriously, how does the golden rule work as it applies to driver #2?
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I look forward to the day that he does that to a car full of lickered up rednecks who start shooting at his feet because he had made them angry. I'd love to see this guy wetting his pants because someone answered his assault and intimidation with more assault and intimidation.