Woman sentenced over violent road rage attack

Police said the attack happened on the B4361 near Bargates

A woman who violently attacked another woman in a road rage incident in the Leominster area, leaving her and a passenger injured, has been given an 18-month suspended jail term.

Kimberley Rattray, 35, from Almley, Hereford, dangerously overtook another vehicle on the B4361 near Bargates, cut in front and braked sharply.

She got out of her car, grabbed the other driver by her hair, trying to drag her out, before slamming the car door into her several times in front of the victim's young child, police said after the hearing.

A passenger who tried to intervene was also injured during the attack on 6 August 2024.

After she was sentenced on Thursday, PC Kieran Duggin from West Mercia Police said: "This was an unprovoked, unjustifiable attack, carried out in front of the victim's young child.

"Such behaviour on our roads is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated."

Rattray, of West View, was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault, and driving without due care and attention at Hereford Magistrates' Court.

As well as the suspended jail term, she was ordered to pay compensation totalling £400 to the victims, costs of £330 and a victim surcharge of £40.

She was given four penalty points on her driving licence and also made subject to restraining orders.