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TOOELE -- A case of severe road rage resulted in a Tooele teenager needing several stitches. Police are now looking for the person who attacked him.
Dyllan Williams says he was only trying to apologize to a driver he had been tailgating when a passenger in that car attacked him. Police say it's just another example of road rage that went way too far.
Williams has been driving for less than a year. Last Sunday, he admits he was tailgating the car in front of him for a few seconds while driving to his Tooele home.
"I didn't mean to get that close to him, and I got a little close," says Williams. "He was going about 50 [miles per hour] in a 60."
When it comes to violence over tailgating for a couple of seconds, it's just not worth it.
–Dyllan Williams
That's when things took a turn for the worse.
"I backed off and he started flipping me off through his back window," Williams says.
The man continued yelling at him at a stoplight. When they got going again, Williams pulled into a parking lot and says he was going to apologize. A passenger in the other car got out and headed towards Williams' car.
"Before I could get out, he hit me in the face," he says.
The attack escalated quickly.
"Before I could look back at him, he hit me again," says Williams. "I tried to cover myself and he kept trying to hit me, and I got him off me and his wife was screaming at him and got out of the car and grabbed him."
But before they left, Williams says the man threatened him.
"As he got back into the car, he told me I'm dead if he ever found me," he says.
Williams was treated for multiple cuts and had to get five stitches above his eye. But the threat is more worrisome to his family than his physical injuries.
Glenn Day, Williams' uncle, says "That gives me cold chills. I'm scared for the family."
Williams says the mental trauma he suffered is what bothers him the most.
"It's kind of scary to think about," he says. "You hear a noise at night and you're like, ‘I wonder if that's somebody.'"
Investigators working the case say they have a few leads they want to check out, but don't have anything solid enough to file charges.
"I want them to catch him," says Breezie Williams, Dylan's mother. "If he can do that to somebody who tailgates him, what's he going to do to somebody who really makes him mad?"
Williams says the man who attacked him was about 5 feet 10 inches tall and balding. He was in a blue PT Cruiser.
"When it comes to violence over tailgating for a couple of seconds, it's just not worth it," Williams says.
There was a witness who was pumping gas at the Maverick across the street. He also told police the man got into a blue PT Cruiser and took off.
Police are hoping the man bragged to someone about the incident and that someone will turn him in.
