A trucking company in Utah is offering a reward for information on a motorist that caused a crash with one of their drivers so that they can hold the four wheeler accountable. 

The crash was caught on dash cam, and happened on April 22nd at around 10:15 a.m. in Farmington, Utah on Interstate 15. 

According to KSL, the truck driver was driving for Ralph Smith Company at the time of the crash. Now, the company is searching for the hit and run driver. 

“One of our drivers got clipped as he passed an off ramp and (the Honda) steered him into the wall and pushed him into the concrete barriers… And ruined (the) day for a lot of people,” said Ralph Smith Company Vice President Doug Smith. “They caused an accident, and they are out of here.”

The truck driver was not hurt, but Smith says he was shaken up by the incident. 

“You take deep breaths and say, ‘Am I OK? Is anyone else hurt? What’s happening next? Am I going to be in a secondary accident from another truck piling me into the concrete,’” he said. “He’s [the driver] back to work. He got right back on the horse,” Smith said, adding that driving a semi truck isn’t always scary, but it’s definitely “edgy.”

The company is now looking for the motorist so that they can hold the four wheeler accountable for the incident, and hopefully prevent them from causing more accidents in the future. 

“So, we have a $1,500 reward for somebody that can put us together with them,” Smith said. “The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety alliance has asked carriers like ourselves to send them clips of the erratic driver behavior that we deal with every day,” Smith said. “This is what’s driving insurance rates up.”

“You want to leave them (drivers) enough room that they can make their mistake,” he said. “But, the people zipping in and out of the freeway, they need more aggressive driving citations in Utah to catch those people.”

Anyone with information on this crash or the driver who was involved, is asked to contact Ralph Smith Company at 801-295-8824.