Agree. He could have simply locked the car and said 'no'. If he can't handle even that much of a confrontation, how is he going to handle a child who by default is going to get confrontational and will have to be stopped for their own good? By the way OP is wording things, I have to wonder if this wasn't a very dumb attempt on her husband's part to teach her a lesson on the consequences of being this hot-headed.

Rule 1 of road rage, stay in your car. Why would anyone in their right mind get out of a vehicle they aren't driving to confront another driver? Especially at 7 months pregnant. I'm not blaming her from getting hit, but it sounds like she may be the kind of person who revels in confrontation and doesn't know when to just let things pass. And her husband is at a point where he just sits back and lets her do her thing because he can't stop her. I'm speaking from knowing a now ex-friend who was exactly like this. Next time, pull over in front of a police station and stay in your vehicle. But this advice may be lost on her.

Seriously! I do not understand the people raking her over the coals. The husband needs to learn to stand up for his family

In my experience, my husband wouldn't have gotten out of the car, either, or driven away. He would have frozen like a deer in headlights, and I respect that. You don't confront crazy unless you are crazy, too.

Yup. If somebody had slapped my wife I'd have grabbed anything in the car that could cause serious damage and gone for him.

My husband said the same thing. I just wonder if she thought the fact that she was obviously pregnant that this lunatic would soften and everything would be okay. Apparently this up was so enraged that he didn't notice she was pregnant and she's just lucky she wasn't another statistic of road rage. At least her husband could have called the cops.

She was in the wrong for exiting the car, I will give the commenters that. But, like you...if my husband even got a WHIFF of another man putting his hands on me, I would be unable to hold him back. That is just not something my husband would have just stood there for and I am not saying that to make him sound "tough"...but it just the truth. He is NOT the one for that.

Or in a hospital gown or black bag with a zipper. It's a very manly idea to respond with violence but there's always someone that can take your a*s. Sometimes these road rage guys are just power tripping without nothing more than wind inside but that's not always the case.

*typo (up) I meant guy