A bad choice can have lifelong impacts not just on the people behind the wheels but their families and beyond. Law enforcement officials say that quick, angry reactions often spill far beyond what anyone imagined or wanted.
That truth hit Deseret News this week when a member of its extended family died in such an incident.
Mike Brown, 38, and his two sons, 8 and 10, had a near-perfect morning Sunday before the day went terribly wrong, as Cyndi Brown, a Deseret News employee married to Mike’s older brother John, recounts it. His wife, Mandi, was on her way back to Utah from a high school graduation in Idaho; they were all going to meet for lunch. That morning, Mike took his boys to hit some golf balls, then to play baseball. They went swimming. He was, Cyndi Brown says, a dad who loved time with his kids. Mandi was waiting at the restaurant when she got word he’d been injured.
At some point, Brown and another driver got into a physical altercation. Brown hit the road hard. He never woke up.
Read more about road rage in Utah and its painful impact in the lives of those left behind.
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