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MURRAY — A Highland man was charged Thursday with causing a crash during a road-rage confrontation with another driver.
Taylor Steven Gray, 33, is charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated assault with a road rage penalty enhancement, a third-degree felony.
On Dec. 5, the Utah Highway Patrol responded to a two vehicle crash on I-215 at 4500 South. Gray and another driver were standing outside of their wrecked vehicles when troopers arrived. The second driver claimed Gray cut him off, so he flashed his high beams at him, causing Gray to brake check the other driver three times, according to charging documents.
The second driver then "made a lane change to the right to pass Gray, at which point Gray swerved at (the driver), causing the crash. (The second driver) believed this was intentional road rage," the charges state.
Gray told troopers "nothing happened on purpose." But after reviewing dashboard camera video from the second driver's vehicle, Gray was arrested.
"Gray intentionally moves into (the second vehicle's) lane and then collides with the side of (the) vehicle, causing both vehicles to strike the concrete barrier," investigators wrote in charging documents after reviewing the video.
Due to other recent convictions and pending charges in other cases, prosecutors have requested that Gray be held in custody without the possibility of posting bail pending trial, due to his "pattern of disruptive and aggressive behavior."
