60% of Chinese netizens think this guy was right to brutally beat female motorist

Video emerged online this Sunday of a vicious instance of road rage in Sichuan provincial capital Chengdu.

In the dashboard cam footage recorded from another nearby vehicle, a man in a red sedan stops another car beneath a highway overpass and drags out the driver, a young women.

After throwing her to the ground, the man then kicks her in the face at least four times.

The male driver, surnamed Zhang, had his road rage piqued by the woman's reckless lane-changing, although dashboard camera footage from his vehicle showed that they had both repeatedly crossed in front of one another.

A poll on Sohu News found that over 60 percent of netizens supported Zhang, saying that the women's erratic driving had earned her the beating.

Of the over quarter of a million comments left on the story, the general sentiment can be summed up with the words "served her right."

Here's a video explaining how events unfolded before the beating:

Zhang, who remains in administrative detention under charges of "picking quarrels and causing trouble," has apologized to the woman driver, surnamed Lu.

Zhang explained that he lost his temper after Lu cut him off and his young son smacked his face against the window when he had to brake abruptly.

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