Florida driver is arrested after shocking footage showed driver pulling out a MACHETE and slashing another motorist's face during wild road rage incident

A Florida driver who was seen swinging a machete at a motorist and slashing his face during a wild road rage incident has been arrested. 

Luis Ruiz-Herrera, 61, has been charged with aggravated battery using a deadly weapon after footage emerged of a man spinning the huge blade towards another road user who had stopped his motor scooter in a lane over. 

The manic driver sliced the victim's left cheek with the machete, the Miami Spring Police Department said Tuesday. The victim was not seriously hurt. 

Video captured by another driver's dashcam shows the victim jumping off the scooter and stepping back slightly when he's approached by the machete-wielding man. 

'[The victim] did what I call his best 'Matrix' impersonation because he dodged back, and he was just caught with the tip,' Police Chief Armando Guzman told NBC 6. 

Luis Ruiz-Herrera, 61, was seen slashing a man riding a scooter with a massive machete in a wild road rage incident in Miami last week 

He jumped out of his car with a huge blade and lunged at the victim who stopped his motor scooter in the lane next to Ruiz-Herrera

He was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon

Police believe Ruiz-Herrera was the man behind the attack and say he fled from the scene in the moments after, however officers were able to identify him through his license plate number. 

The Miami police tracked him down and arrested him shortly after the incident. 

The attack occurred at the intersection of NW 42 Avenue and NW 36 Street in Miami, when both the victim and the suspect were stuck in traffic. 

'The crime stemmed from a road rage incident and was caught on video by a third-party motorist who was also in traffic, directly behind the scooter,' the police said in a statement. 

But Miami police didn't not say what sparked the road rage incident exactly.   

Ruiz Herrera was arrested at his residence, and he reportedly expressed remorse when he confessed to the crime.

He said he swung the machete because the victim had verbally assaulted his mother, 7News Miami reported. 

The police was able to identify him through his license plate number and arrested him shortly after the incident

Ruiz-Herra was granted a $10,000 bond and ordered to stay away from the victim

Ruiz Herrera was arrested at his residence, and he reportedly expressed remorse when he confessed to the crime

At court, Ruiz-Herra was granted a $10,000 bond and ordered to stay away from the victim. 

'You are to stay away from that person, I am ordering you to have no contact,' the judge said during a court hearing. 

Guzman said confrontations over road rage just aren't worth it. He advised those who encounter road rage incidents to drive on and let them go. 

'When you actually see it first-hand, it's quite shocking,' Guzman said. 'Somebody cuts me off, personally, I just let it go.'

The incident is one of a series of road rage ordeals in the area, following a road rage shooting that sent an innocent driver to the hospital last week and another involving a driver throwing coins at another drive last month.