Police have launched an investigation after a man was threatened with a hammer in South Shields.
Shortly before 5.30pm on Saturday, February 19, a 16-year-old moped rider had been at a set of traffic lights on Newcastle Road, South Shields when there was almost a collision involving an oncoming car.
It was reported that the teen’s father, aged 52, who was on the same stretch of road on his motorbike, approached the driver.
