Auckland, New Zealand Justice Sally Fitzgerald sentenced Fraser Milne today to two years and six months in jail and disqualified him from driving one year after his release for his road rage attack against a Chinese-New Zealand family, according to the New Zealand Herald. But she said that the attack where he hurled numerous racial slurs at the family was not “racially motivated” and that “it would be quite wrong” to call it a hate crime.

The incident happened on March 4 last year when the Chinese family went out to pick blueberries at Awithitu Peninsula. The family consisted of the mother, father, two children ages 12 and 10, and a family friend. Milne and the family almost got into a head-on collision but Milne swerved and crashed into a drain. The minor crash caused Milne to go after the family in a high-speed chase where he claimed to be a gang member and threatened to murder them. When the chase broke off for the first time, Milne went to some local shops and vented his anger about Asian. He told locals that Asians were “taking over the country” and that “f***ing Asians” damaged his car.

While he was going off about Asians, he saw the family car once again and took chase. He chased them for 4 miles at around 80 plus mph. He demanded the family stop. Terrified, the family refused. This caused Milne to crash his car into the family’s car, which caused the car to flip over causing the kids to be thrown out. He got out of his car and yelled, “Get out of the f***ing car, I’m going to smash you! You f***ing Asian c***! F***ing Asians.”

Locals arrived at the scene to intervene. The five Chinese passengers were taken to the hospital with minor to major injuries. When the police interrogated Milne, he continued on his racist rant against Asians saying they were illegal and that he wanted to hurt any Asians during the incident.

The family, who was not in court, sent in an impact statement. The father said that he had lived in New Zealand for 18 years and that Milne was “worse than Americans with a gun.”

“I don’t understand why the man stopped us three times, I don’t understand why he did that?” he said.

The mother said that the incident left her and the whole family with PTSD.

“I always worry about the scars on my daughter and if they will ever go away,” she said. “Our son has changed since the attack…When the children are with me in the car we are all nervous, when a car comes too close we are all scared…I struggle to even to food shopping, I am too scared.”

Fraser Milne had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, injuring with intent to cause bodily harm and four charges of injuring with reckless disregard for safety. He was initially charged with attempted murder and threatening to kill but the Crown withdrew those charges as the trial neared.