Aftermath of the fatal crash June 4, 2023, on Highway 73 in Eagle Mountain, Utah. (Utah County Sheriff's Office)
A couple out for a Sunday drive with a Porsche club was killed when a driver involved in a road rage incident lost control of his pickup truck and hit their car, a sheriff’s office in Utah said.
The crash was reported around 12:30 p.m. Sunday on Highway 73 about 20 miles northwest of Provo, Utah.
The road rage conflict had started several minutes earlier in the city of Eagle Mountain: A Ford F-150 pickup reportedly pulled out in front of a Nissan Maxima near the rodeo grounds, and the Nissan’s driver expressed his disapproval, said an account from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.
Both vehicles continued north on Eagle Mountain Boulevard for 3½ miles, then both turned east onto Highway 73, a two-lane road. About a half-mile after making the turn, with the Nissan now in front, the pickup’s driver reportedly veered onto the paved shoulder, came up on the Nissan’s right side and sideswiped it.
The pickup’s driver then apparently lost control, crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a 1987 Porsche 911 in the westbound lane.
The Porsche was destroyed and its two occupants were killed on impact. They were identified only as a 48-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman.
The pickup’s driver was taken to a hospital in Murray for treatment of unspecified injuries. The Nissan’s driver was not injured.
The pickup’s driver will face criminal charges, the sheriff’s office said, but investigators on Sunday evening had not determined what those would be.
The couple who were killed had been on an outing with several other cars from a Porsche club, sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon told KSL-TV.
Originally published at Bay Area News Group