Young mother's arms broken with crowbar during road-rage attack

Edmonton police continue to look fora suspect in avicious road-rage incidentand now believe the man was drivinga silver Pontiac Waveand not a Chevrolet Aveo, police spokesperson Scott Pattison said Wednesday.

A woman suffered two broken arms while being attacked with a crowbar early Tuesday morning,police said.

The mother, 34, was returning to her home inthesouth-endneighbourhood ofKing Edward Parkaround 6:30 a.m. MT Tuesday after dropping off herhusband atwork, police say.

While approaching a small silver carstopped on the road, shehonked her horn before passing it.

The car followed the woman for about oneblock to a nearby home, where she got out of her Hyundai Tucsonto go inside.

The driver ran up to the woman and smashed her arms with a crowbar, police said.

She was taken to hospital and underwent surgery on her arms.

"We believe the suspect was swinging for the complainant's head, and she blocked it," said police spokesperson ScottPattison. "Otherwise, those injuries could have been even more significant.

"[This] is a devastating event both physically and emotionally, and I know the family is traumatized by this."

Edmonton police investigate violent neighbourhood road rage incident

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A woman suffered two broken arms while being attacked with a crowbar during a vicious road-rage incident Tuesday. Police spokesperson Scott Pattison and neighbour Simon Yu discuss what happened.

Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man in dash-camera images.

He is described as:

• Caucasian.
• About 30 years old.
• Six-foot-one.
• Medium build.
• Brown hair and blue eyes.
• Wearing a grey toque, blue jeansand dark jacket.

"We have an individual running around the city with some anger management issues,"Pattisonsaid.

"Regardless if she was impatient certainly a violent response like this is unacceptable."

Investigators are also looking for two witnesses awomanwith a long white coat and a manwalking two dark-coloured dogswho were walking across the street from where the attack occurred.The attack happened at76thAvenue and87thStreet.

The man's car is described as amid-2000smodel with a seven-digit Alberta licence plate that starts with the letter B.

The car has a small fin or spoiler on the rear hatch, and steel winter wheel rims.