I remember when you were talking about that. Yeah, Co Springs to south Denver is a demolition derby. I've never seen so many angry drivers in one place, except on LBJ - and they're harmless because LBJ is so gridlocked they can't go fast enough to hurt anybody.
Last night, north of Monument, I was in the construction area, and the left lane closed out. Mind you, they had flashing lights that could be seen from outer space, so there was no real surprise. But pretty quickly, the traffic in my lane was slowing from 60 down to about 10 - and I was towing a motorcycle trailer. As the lane ran out, and I was braking pretty quickly for the people ahead, this fool passed me about 20 mph faster than I was going, dodged in at point blank range, and nailed his brakes. Sadly, that isn't a rare occurrence on that stretch.
I don't see the driving being ultra aggressive everywhere in the area - just on that piece of I-25. Kind of like I-20 from Duncanville to Arlington about 6:30pm, when the major rush hour is over and the Type-A personalities are on their way home from work.
Anyway, my guess is this lunatic pickup truck driver in the video was already amped up because of traffic problems, and these riders accidentally got into his gun sights by reacting to a lane closure, lane dodge, sudden traffic braking, or any of a number of scenarios that are common as dirt on that stretch. Now that I'm in the area permanently, I'll be watching local news to see if there are any followups.
Joe, I'm aware of the road that comes out in Sedalia (about 3 miles from my kids' house) and I expect to use it frequently. In fact, when my kids towed my camping trailer up for me 3 months ago, I set that route up for them so that they could avoid towing the trailer through "the narrows" - the area north of Monument where I25 narrows down to two skinny lanes with zero-clearance concrete barriers right up against the lanes. Yesterday evening a car in front of me, driving too fast, scraped one of those walls on a dogleg curve, and earned himself a Darlington stripe on the right side of his Jetta.