Two drivers brake-checked each other along westbound Interstate 70 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, on Wednesday, June 10, then stopped in the travel lanes approaching West 32nd Avenue and got out of their cars to confront each other, according to the Wheat Ridge Police Department. Police found both drivers, both admitted their part, and both left with the same piece of paper: a summons for disorderly conduct.
That summons sits at the bottom of the ladder Colorado and Wheat Ridge law offer for what the video shows, and it reaches the fight, not the driving that led to it. Based on what the department has announced, neither driver faces a traffic charge that would put a point on a driver’s license.
What the truck’s dashcam recorded on westbound I-70
The footage was recorded from the cab of a truck, and the Denver Gazette reported it came from an 18-wheeler’s dash camera. It shows two cars weaving across lanes before both stop in traffic. CBS Colorado, describing the clip, reported that one driver shoved the other’s door closed as that driver tried to get out. Denver7 reported that one driver appeared to punch out the back window of the other car with his bare hand, shattering the glass, and that the driver of the rear car popped his trunk and took out what appeared to be a tire iron before approaching the other man.
The department opened its post with “As we head into another hot summer weekend, we need to bring down the temperature on our roads.” It added: “I-70 is dangerous enough without people stopping in the middle of the highway and getting out of their cars. Don’t do that.” And it closed with: “This situation was downright dangerous and these two are lucky they didn’t get hit on the highway.”…