I could reproduce the crash, but it's caused by YOUR empty gwmetric.
You must always assign a value to gwmetric. The only exception is if you set gateway to none (in this case you must leave gwmetric empty).
I've tested your script with gwmetric=1 and everything seems to work fine!
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A default gateway with this IP Address already configured on this interface.
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This isn't an error. You'll get this message if you run the script multiple times.