Tesla road rage driver gets 7 years in Hawaii for attacking mother, daughter

Nathaniel Radimak, the so-called Tesla road rage driver, was sentenced Thursday to seven years in a Hawaii prison for attacking a woman and her 18-year-old daughter during a 2025 Honolulu road rage incident — his second major prison term after California freed him in under a year of a five-year Los Angeles sentence because of prison overcrowding.

The case drew renewed scrutiny of California's prison overcrowding crisis, which allowed Radimak — whose filmed Southern California road rage assaults made him notorious — to walk free in under a year despite a five-year Los Angeles County sentence, only to reoffend across state lines.

Radimak pleaded no contest to assault charges stemming from the 2025 Honolulu incident, in which he attacked a woman and her 18-year-old daughter during a road rage confrontation, ABC7 Los Angeles reported.

At sentencing, the judge found that Radimak had failed to seek required medical treatment and had consumed illegal substances while on parole — factors the court weighed in handing down the seven-year term.

Radimak had previously received a five-year sentence in Los Angeles County for multiple road rage assault counts. Several of those attacks were captured on camera. He was released after serving less than a year because of prison overcrowding.

Speaking before the court Thursday, Radimak offered a partial appeal for understanding alongside his acknowledgment of wrongdoing. "I take accountability, just feel bad about it. It shouldn't happen," he told the judge, according to ABC7 Los Angeles. "But I really need a certain kind of treatment that is being prolonged. And farther away, it's not helping me. But I take accountability."

Radimak will serve the Hawaii sentence after having been supervised on parole from California, where his early release despite a five-year term for multiple filmed assaults left Southern California communities questioning the state's approach to violent repeat offenders.