A passenger has been charged with a string of criminal offences after allegedly shooting two drivers with a nail gun in separate incidents on the New South Wales Central Coast.
According to police, they responded to reports at around 4.10pm on Monday, 9 January 2023 of two men being shot with a nail gun by a passenger in another vehicle while driving northbound on the M1 Motorway between Somersby and Ourimbah.
One of the drivers, a 57-year old man, allegedly told police he was driving his Mitsubishi sedan with the window down near Somersby when struck in his right arm with a nail as a white Mitsubishi truck passed his vehicle.
Shortly thereafter, a 52-year old man reported feeling an impact to the top of his head which caused him to briefly lose control of the Toyota RAV 4 he was driving near Ourimbah. The driver said he looked out of his vehicle and saw a male passenger leaning out of a white Mitsubishi truck firing projectiles towards his vehicle, causing the passenger side