Calangute police have reportedly booked three tourists after a local taxi driver was allegedly assaulted and his vehicle vandalized in Naikavaddo on Wednesday evening. The tourists reportedly began attacking the taxi driver with helmets. Sensing the aggression, the driver fled the scene leaving the car behind. If not, he could have suffered injuries which could have proven fatal. The angry tourists then turned their fury on the vehicle, damaging it by smashing the windshield and rear glass using the helmets. Incidentally this is the second time in the past few weeks where tourists have used a helmet to attack a car driver. Two tourists from Nasik reportedly assaulted a car driver with helmets at Sangolda. It appears that tourists are now using the helmet to attack locals in incidents of road rage. Helmets having a very hard surface can definitely be used as a dangerous weapon to settle scores in incidents of road rage. Recently there were reports of a 45-year-old man having succumbed to fatal head injuries after being allegedly attacked with a helmet by two unidentified bike-borne men in a road rage incident in Kharghar at Navi Mumbai.
