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68-Year-Old Driver's Skull Fractured in Flushing Road-Rage Fight, DA Says

QUEENS — A 68-year-old driver's skull was fractured in a road-rage fight with another driver who was later arrested near Kissena Park, prosecutors said.

The victim, whose name wasn't immediately released, and Cleaman Anderson, 44, collided outside 45-15 Colden St., near Geranium Avenue, just before noon July 22, according to the criminal complaint.

Anderson, who was with his sister, and the other driver got out of their cars and confronted one another, according to the Queens District Attorney's Office.

A detective said video of the incident shows Anderson then approach the other driver and hit him in the head, knocking him to the ground.

But Anderson told prosecutors that the other driver grabbed his sister first.

Anderson then confronted him, so the driver "made a fake maneuver" and fell to the ground, Anderson told prosecutors.

The other driver fractured his skill and bruised his brain, which also started bleeding and swelling, prosecutors said.

Emergency medical workers found him bleeding from the mouth and with a swollen eye, unable to communicate, prosecutors said.

He was treated at New York-Presbyterian Queens hospital, where he's listed in critical condition, an NYPD spokesman said.

Anderson was arrested and charged with assault, prosecutors said.

He was released on $50,000 bail Thursday, according to the Department of Correction and court records.

Anderson was arrested in 1988 and 1989, but those records are sealed, an NYPD spokesman said.

He was arrested another time in 1989 for assault, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.

He was also arrested in 2014, but those records are sealed, police said.