Second driver in the deadly incident of road anger accused of homicide

Eagle Mountain, Utah – a second driver was charged in a 2023 Incident of road anger that killed two people in Eagle Mountain.

Michael Alan Landen, 42, was accused at the end of January with two accusations of negligent homicide for crimes and a number of reckless leadership offenses.

The accusations came a few weeks after another driver in the incident, Peterson Drew Matheson, was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for his involvement in the accident.

On the afternoon of June 4, 2023, Landen was leading to the east of SR-73 in Eagle Mountain, when Matheson tried to cross his right-hand truck.

Landen told the detectives that Matheson adapted him to a “uncomfortable close” distance and that he had reached his breaks to “show disapproval.” As the two vehicles traveled at a high speed, while they are parallel to each other, Landen admitted that he accelerated, which did not allow Matheson’s passage.

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The loading documents show that the two vehicles have made contact with each other “several times” before Matheson spin in front of Landen’s car and take care of the trafficking, collapsing in a Porsche who he was driving in the opposite direction.

The two people in Porsche, Rodney Salm and Michaela Himmelberger were killed. Both were driving with other Porsches who was part of a car club with whom Salm was involved.

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An accident reconstruction report claimed that five seconds before the collision, Matheson’s truck “was traveling to 74.1 miles per hour in a 65 MPH area, and several rotary tires on both vehicles … indicated (the two vehicles) were traveling at relatively similar similar speeds while they are in contact with each other. “

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Matheson pleaded guilty for two charges of murder of grade 2 and was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of 0-5 years that will be executed.