Police are investigating claims of a ‘road rage’ attack in Bradford in which a terrified mother and daughter say they were pulled by a mob from their car by their hair.

Yasmeen Din, 40, said she and her daughter Aneesha, 17, were pulling into Horton Park Health Centre, Horton Park Avenue, when their car was hit by a blue Ford Focus, whose driver then fled.

She said they inspected their damaged car and were helped by passers-by, but the woman driver of the other car returned about 15 minutes later in a silver Citroen car with a group of four or five men and women, who then attacked her and her daughter.

She said: “Why would you hit somebody’s car when you’re going to damage your own vehicle?

“It seemed like road rage. She hit the car while we were in it, then they came back to us.

“They were beating and dragging me out of the car.

“My head was yanked to the floor and there were punches flying.

“That’s all I remember, I don’t know who they were. My heart was racing, I was screaming.

“I could hear my daughter screaming and I couldn’t get to her, I was so worried.”

Miss Din, of Keighley, who is a full-time carer for her autistic son, said her face was “swollen like a football” as she suffered a split lip and bruising in the attack.

Her daughter, Aneesha, said: “Because the car’s doors weren’t locked we were both dragged out. My mum was being assaulted by three people. One of them held her by her hair and the other was kicking her on the legs.

“When I got out of the car one came up to me, I was bending down to pick up my keys and she grabbed me by the hair, she was a lot bigger than me and I couldn’t fight back.”