Man sentenced for road rage assault on I-25

CASTLE PINES, Colo. — A man who pleaded guilty in connection to a 2020 road rage incident that injured a motorcyclist on Interstate 25 was sentenced Monday, prosecutors said. 

Alberto Mota, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty in August to vehicular assault, felony menacing, reckless endangerment and child abuse. 

The road rage assault happened around 2 p.m. Aug. 16, 2020, on southbound I-25 in the Castle Pines area. It was recorded by a dash camera from another vehicle. 

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The video shows Mota, who was driving a pickup truck, traveling across several lanes of traffic and swerving into a motorcycle driven by Quentin Quidley. Mota’s then-12-year-old daughter was in the truck with him, the Colorado State Patrol said. 

Quidley was pushed into a barrier and suffered multiple broke bones from the crash. 

Prosecutors said Mota did not have a valid license at the time of the crash. Mota denied getting into a road rage incident, but eyewitness statements and video footage led investigators to believe the assault was intentional, prosecutors said. 

“He chose to endanger the lives of numerous people on the road that day because of his anger,” Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Desits said in a news release. “Thankfully, with the dash camera capturing his actions on video, his attempt to blame the biker for the crash was not successful.”