Road Rage

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Originally Posted by pottery beige

if the idiot didnt wind his window down he wouldnt have copped a whack in the head to start with.......

I agree, don't wind down the window. it is better that the other guy get changed for damaging property (and his own fist) on something that is repairable rather than getting involved in some form of punch up.

Next time he may have a tyre lever or knife (or worse) and then you won't get out of it with just an assault charge.

By the way, if the charge is assault with grievous bodily harm, you did not give him a couple of light punches, there would have to be fractures involved. Self defence or defence of others revolves around the concept of "reasonable force", reasonable force is hard (not impossible) to claim if the other persons sustains serious fractures (which is what grievous bodily harm alludes to).