"An unseemly scuffle": Daughter PUNCHED by bloke as she tried to stop road rage driver from attacking her dad

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A plucky daughter was punched by a pedestrian as she intervened to stop him attacking her father in his car during a road rage row.

Jessica Lound, who in his her 20s, jumped out of the front passenger seat to remonstrate with Lee Hale after he tried to pull her dad, Adrian, out of the driver's side window, a court heard.

But she was herself assaulted during an 'unseemly scuffle' as she attempted to split the pair up. When construction worker Hale, from Warrington, was quizzed he claimed he was acting in 'self defence'.

The dust-up took place on March 17 this year after Hale, 50, was walking his own daughter home. A court heard he stepped out into the path of Mr Lound's vehicle as he was driving home from work with his daughter. READ MORE: M62 LIVE updates: Huge queues and 70-minute delays amid 'multi-vehicle' crash Kassem Noureddine, prosecuting, told Warrington magistrates court: "Mr Lound had to slam on the brakes due to Mr Hale walking into the road.