By Phil Coleman

Published at 11:40, Friday, 08 March 2013

Police are hunting for the driver of a transit van responsible for a terrifying road rage attack at Cockermouth.

The male driver is reported to have driven the wrong way round the Oakhurst roundabout and then repeatedly rammed a car which had just overtaken him.

The victim, a young man from the Keswick area, had been driving his white Renault Laguna along the A66 and had overtaken the white Ford Transit involved.

Police say the van driver then drove in an anti-clockwise direction around the Oakhurst roundabout, by the Lakeland Sheep and Wool Centre, and intercepted the Laguna driver on Lamplugh Road, near the Stan Palmer Honda garage. He then stopped next to the Laguna, and began to repeatedly ram the car at low speed on its front nearside.

The incident ended when the van driver did a handbrake turn and deliberately drove into the front of the car, again at low speed.

The white van was last seen driving off towards Keswick on the A66.

Sergeant Steve Brown, of Cockermouth Police, said: “It must have been very worrying for the driver of the Laguna, who drove straight to the police station afterwards.”

The car driver was not injured but his car suffered “significant damage.”

The incident happened in darkness, at around 9.10pm last Friday.

Police have appealed for help to trace the van which had a sticker on its rear with a chequered flag and a speech bubble with words similar to: “Great – I can stand again.”

Anyone with information can call PC Zoe Gray on 101.

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