Polish tourist stabbed by Thai driver in the neck with screwdriver in road rage incident

A Polish tourist was stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver by a Thai motorist over a road rage incident.

Dobrzynski Slawomir, 58, was overpowering the unnamed motorcycle driver in a fistfight when the native pulled out a screwdriver and plunged it into the holidaymaker's neck in Pattaya, Thailand, on August 20.

Footage shows Dobrzynski in a striped shirt pinning a helmeted individual on the ground. The pair sparked panic as they fought on the roadside before the motorcycle driver used his makeshift weapon to gain the upper hand.

The Thai suspect reportedly called his friends to gang up on Dobrzynski, but they all scattered when police arrived.

Police Colonel Navin Sinthurat, superintendent of the Bang Lamung District Police Station, said they received a report of the attack along Soi Boonsampan at 6:06pm local time.

The police chief said: ‘A radio alert was broadcasted to intercept the suspect and his friends along their escape route. However, they were still able to escape.

‘The incident is believed to have been caused by road rage. I have ordered investigators to inspect the scene for evidence to track down the suspect for prosecution.'

Dobrzynski was found by medics bleeding from a wound near his jaw. They gave him first aid and took him to a hospital for further treatment.

Onlooker Akkarachai Nanongkron, 16, said the punch-up stemmed from a traffic dispute.

He said: 'I heard the motorcycle driver complaining about the tourist cutting in front of him. Their argument later escalated into a physical brawl.'

A coffee vendor in the area said she saw the suspect knocking on the window of Dobrzynski's pickup truck shortly before the pair fought on the street.

The incident is the latest in a spate of violence against tourists and foreigners in Thailand, which has gained a bad reputation in recent years for lawlessness.

On August 10, an Irishman identified only as Paul was beaten up for allegedly attacking a cabbie and a traffic policeman in Phuket.

Just a day earlier, British tourist Robert Anderson, 61, was allegedly punched and robbed by a thug in Phuket.

On July 31, Canadian oil executive Mark Robert Westendorf, 65, was knocked out by Thai security guard, Patiphan Sorheng, 28, in front of a bar operated by British-run company Nightwish Group on Soi 6 in Pattaya.

Mark was recovering in the ICU of a private hospital, while Patiphan had denied assaulting him, and claimed he only shoved the Canadian.

On July 29, two Arabian tourists, Mohamed Abdalla Hassan Mirak Alblooshi, 33, and Abdullah Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, 25, were reportedly assaulted by a hot-headed taxi driver speeding past them in Phuket.

Two weeks earlier, on July 15, a Kuwaiti tourist, Turky Alazemi, 30, in Phuket was reportedly beaten up by three motorcycle taxi drivers until he fell unconscious.

While a British tourist, Bryce Mahoney, 42, was brutally kicked in the head and knocked unconscious by a bar bouncer over a drinks bill dispute at a bar in Pattaya on May 24.