Screwdriver attacker targeted girl at Huddersfield traffic lights
Chelsea Sykes
A TEENAGE driver was terrorised by an attacker wielding a screwdriver as she waited at traffic lights.
Chelsea Sykes, 19, sounded her horn in a bid to attract help during the incident on Manchester Road in Thornton Lodge – but no-one came to her aid.
Luckily the lights changed and the attacker ran off after scratching her car with the screwdriver.
The nursery nurse was driving home from Huddersfield to Linthwaite when the lights changed to red at 2pm on Monday.
She said: "I became aware of a shadow by the passenger door and so locked all the doors.
"My handbag was on the passenger seat and I wondered if he had tried the door to grab it.’’
The man moved around to the front of the car and Chelsea could see that he had a knife in one hand and a roll of what looked like tape in the other.
"He was swearing and snarling,’’ she said. "I had trouble making out what he was saying.
"I beeped my horn to try to summon help, but no-one came.
"But it must have scared him off because he ran off along Manchester Road towards the town centre shouting, ‘Cos I’m bad I can do what I want.’"
Chelsea drove on Manchester Road for about quarter-of-a-mile once the lights changed to green before she dared to pull over and inspect the damage.
The man had scratched the passenger side of her Renault Clio, along with the bonnet.
