Jacob Bruno Leigh Taylor, 37, jailed for Gold Coast road rage assault
A man has been jailed for a road rage meltdown caught on video after a van ploughed into a car triggering a roadside brawl where one man’s nose was broken. SEE THE FOOTAGE.
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A man has been jailed for five months after a road rage meltdown, captured in a confronting video, peaked when he broke a driver’s nose in a chaotic roadside fight.
Video captured by a witness shows a white van, with Jacob Bruno Leigh Taylor as passenger, swerving across its lane into another car along Smith St at Southport.
Both cars pull over and Taylor (dressed in blue), 37, exits the van with a large toy gun and runs towards the victim, hitting him in the head with it.
The two men start fighting on the side of the road and Taylor breaks the man’s nose before spitting blood at a female bystander who was filming the incident on her phone.
Two other men were involved in the fight.
The Browns Plains father of eight was jailed for 15 months, to serve five months of actual custody, in Beenleigh Magistrates Court last Thursday (May 11).
He pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm and common assault for the April 3, 2022 road rage attack.
The court heard the male victim suffered a fractured nose, numerous bruises and required surgery.
He tendered a victim impact statement to the court where he said he struggled with anxiety, depression and had flashbacks from the attack.
The female bystander told the court she had to get multiple blood tests to make sure she had no diseases or infections from the spitting.
She also said she was traumatised from the incident and was scared every time she saw a white van.
Taylor told the court he was a family man and worked as an underground coal miner.
He was involved in a bad car accident when he was younger and suffered anger issues as a result.
Taylor pleaded with Magistrate Terry Duroux to not be jailed as his family was relying on him.
“If I go to jail my family will become homeless. We will lose the house,” he said.
Magistrate Terry Duroux said this was a typical road rage incident and sentenced Taylor to 15 months imprisonment, to serve 5 months of actual custody.
He will be released on parole on October 10.
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