I-25 Road Rage Incident: Face-Slapping, Pepper Spray

DENVER, CO -- A driver told Denver police he was assaulted on the shoulder of I-25 by a fellow driver in a road-rage incident Friday.

Police said the driver of a white four-door Dodge was traveling southbound around 11:20 a.m. on the highway near the Colorado Boulevard exit, when another driver allegedly tried to merge into his lane, coming so close that the other driver's white delivery vehicle nudged the passenger-side mirror.

Both cars pulled over on the side of the highway, and the Dodge driver exited his car and walked over to the other vehicle. He told police he pushed in the driver's side mirror on the other driver's truck, while the other driver was still seated in his vehicle, police reports said.

At that point, the man in the car reached out his window and allegedly "slapped the victim in the face once with an open left hand," police said. The complaining driver said he turned to walk back to his Dodge (a company car) and told the other driver he was going to check his car for damages.

At that point, the other driver allegedly got out of his car, "walked up [to] the victim and sprayed the victim with pepper spay [sic]," a police report said.

The other driver then fled, but not before the pepper-sprayed driver copied down his license plate number, which he shared with police.

The first driver declined to file charges, Denver Police Spokesman Doug Schepman said Tuesday.

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