Woman sentenced for road-rage incident

A North Idaho woman was sentenced Tuesday to prison for a road rage incident last summer.

Raven Alexis Crum, 33, convicted of aggravated driving while reckless, was sentenced to a seven-year prison sentence, suspended for two years of probation with 120 days in jail and a one-year driver’s license suspension by Senior District Judge Lansing Haynes, according to a press release from the Kootenai County Prosecutor's Office.

The charge stems from an incident Aug. 3, 2024, when officers responded to a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 95 just north of Highway 53. 

When officers interviewed Crum, the driver of one of the vehicles, she admitted the crash was the result of a road rage incident, the release said. 

Officers also learned that a juvenile passenger had been ejected from the other vehicle. 

"This juvenile was eventually located but suffered life-threatening injuries and spent more than a week in a coma," the release said.

Through the investigation, officers learned that Crum approached the other vehicle occupied by three juveniles from behind. Crum changed lanes, passed the juveniles, and then swerved back into the other lane in front of the juveniles, the release said.

"Feeling that Crum had slowed down in front of their vehicle after being passed, the juvenile driver changed lanes, passed Crum, and then pulled back into their original lane in front of Crum," the release said. "As the juvenile vehicle passed Crum, one of the juvenile passengers 'flipped off' Crum."

Crum responded by changing lanes again and sideswiping the juvenile car as she re-entered her original lane, causing the juvenile vehicle to leave the roadway and roll several times before coming to rest, according to the release.

Crum claimed that she lost sight of the juvenile vehicle in her blind spot as she was trying to re-enter her original lane after attempting to pass the juvenile vehicle a second time, the release said. 

Crum was later convicted of aggravated driving while reckless, a felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.