"He could have killed me...": Thug drove car at man in the midst of road rage row

A thug drove his car at a man and hit him after a road rage row. Zak Allinson, 22, had become embroiled in a heated argument with his victim following a dispute on a trading estate in Cheetham Hill.

Allinson, who said he was there to buy food from a takeaway, had blocked a lorry which was trying to drive into the yard. After the victim closed part of a gate, Allinson drove directly at the man and hit him.

He was thrown onto the bonnet and fell to the ground shortly after. ‘He could have killed me,” the victim later said in a statement.

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Manchester Crown Court heard that the victim had attended Sherborne Street trading estate to visit his friend on July 9 last year. Before he arrived, his pal had been trying to park a lorry in the yard but Allinson’s car was in the way.

The man got out of the car and soon after heard swearing being directed at him. Three men were in the car, one being Allinson.

He noticed the three men were using nitrous oxide balloons, prosecutor Eleanor Gleeson said. One of them said ‘I’m going to crack your head open if you don’t move’, the court heard. Allinson ‘repeatedly’ said ‘I’m here for trap kitchen’.

When the victim arrived, he observed that the three men appeared ‘very irate’ and were acting in an ‘intimidating’ way. The victim went over to a double gate and closed the left side to prevent more vehicles driving onto the yard.

He planned to close the right side when Allinson’s car had left. But Allinson moved the car towards the gate and ‘stopped just short of it’.

Allinson then got out of the car and looked at the victim in a ‘menacing’ way’. Ms Gleeson said: “He got back into the