An enraged motorist brutally attacked a longtime tractor-trailer operator who was on his way home from work on August 27, police say.
The attacker allegedly beat Ronnie Bushway II in a bloody assault, gouging his victim’s eyes.
Doctors say the 46-year-old Bushway may never recover his sight.
Bushway was heading home from his commercial-driving job at Saia LTL Freight, a company with terminals in Scarborough, Maine; Conway, New Hampshire and Colchester, Vermont.
Bushway told cops he was driving in his car from Colchester when a motorist began tailgating him.
As Bushway slowed to let the other driver pass him, the would-be attacker then pulled in front of his car and slammed on his brakes, stopping in the road.
Bushway got out of his car, whereupon a man in front of him also exited his vehicle and began attacking him.
The whole thing was caught on a dash cam in Bushway’s car that captured the alleged attacker’s license plates.
Armed with the camera images, cops were able to track down a suspect.
They nabbed 44-year-old Aaron Williams, who was arrested on felony aggravated-assault and maiming charges.
Police said Williams punched Bushway, gouged his eyes, dragged him to the ground and then slugged him again several times before leaving the scene.
Several witnesses rushed to help Bushway, who was blinded and may never see again.
“He couldn’t talk much; blood was just pouring from his nose,” Cathryn Blanchard, a local resident who called the police, told WPTZ-TV.
A judge later ordered Williams, of Shelburne, Vermont, held without bail.
Bushway’s father, Ronald Bushway, said if his son can’t see he’ll lose his only means of making money – driving. “They don’t know if his eyes will recover,” the senior Bushway said.
Court paperwork showed that one of his son’s eyes, possibly both, may need to be removed, WPTZ said.
A conviction of maiming carries a potential term of life in prison.
Saia, a nationwide trucking company, recently began expanding its operations in New England.
The company opened a new branch last year on Ginn Road in Scarborough in a terminal formerly occupied by Land Air Express of New England.
