A mother says she was harassed and cut off by another driver for driving a Tesla, an incident she described as terrifying and unprovoked. The confrontation, which was caught on video, occurred while she was on her way to a doctor’s appointment in Lynnwood Wednesday morning.
Leigh, who has driven a Tesla for the past two years, said she first noticed the aggressive driver honking behind her as she approached a red light.
“Thankfully, I was by myself,” Leigh said. “When I made a left turn, they followed me and cut around me.”
According to Leigh, the situation escalated when a white SUV cut her off and stopped in the middle of the road. The driver then got out, approached her vehicle, and began berating her.
“He gets out and walks straight up to my door window. So, I cracked my window and I said, ‘What? What is the problem?’” she recalled. “He goes, ‘You need to sell your car. This is a Nazi car. You’re driving it, you need to sell your car.’”
Visibly shaken, Leigh continued her account, saying the driver, wearing a camouflage jacket and a ski mask, lowered the mask to tell her that she “needed to learn to drive” before returning to his car.
