Road Rage Leads to Crash Just Off Highway 100

An 18-year-old Greenfield man and a 22-year-old Waterford man collected a slew of traffic citations after an alleged road-rage incident resulted in one of the men crashing his car into the rear end of the other man’s vehicle.

According to the report, the 18-year-old, who had three 16-year-old passengers in his 2002 Ford Focus at the time, and the 22-year-old driving a 1994 Mitsubishi Eclipse, pulled up next to each other at a West Allis intersection on Highway 100 around 1 a.m. Sept. 1.

Some of the occupants of the Mitsubishi started “talking crap” about the Focus, and one of them allegedly threw a milk jug at the Focus. The driver of the Focus then threw a Mountain Dew bottle at the Mitsubishi.

The occupants continued to taunt each other as the cars traveled southbound on Highway 100 until Cold Spring Road when the driver of the Mitsubishi turned left.

The driver of the Focus, which had contained two passengers in their 20s, admitted to following the other vehicle down Cold Spring. He told police when he tried to pass the Mitsubishi on Cold Spring, the driver of that car swerved in front of him and slammed on his brakes, causing the Focus to smash into the back end of the Mitsubishi.

The driver of the Mitsubishi, however, told police he was slowing down on Cold Spring Road and turning left onto 104th Street when the Focus hit him. That tale, however, was inconsistent with skid marks made by the vehicles in the road.

No major injuries were reported, but both cars were inoperable because of the damage sustained.

The Greenfield man driving the Focus received traffic citations for unreasonable and imprudent speed, following too close and operating left of center and a municipal citation for disorderly conduct.

The Mitsubishi’s driver from Waterford received a reckless driving traffic citation and was booked for felony bail jumping related to an open robbery with the use of force case in Waukesha County.