Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested a southwest Miami-Dade woman Friday in connection with a fatal crash on Florida’s Turnpike over the summer just north of Cutler Bay.
Troopers said Q S, 31, was driving drunk at 110 mph when she killed Y R, who had just turned 50 less than two weeks before the June 23 early-morning crash.
It happened, authorities said, about a mile north of Caribbean Boulevard.
An arrest report states that S was driving a Mazda CX-5 just before 2:15 a.m. when she slammed into a Chevrolet Equinox, injuring both the driver and R, sitting in the front passenger’s seat. Troopers said R succumbed to her injuries at Jackson South Medical Center.
The report states that immediately after the crash, a trooper encountered S standing by her SUV, “appear(ing) oblivious as to how the crash happened” and smelling of alcohol.
Authorities said vehicle data put S’s speed in the triple digits and two blood-alcohol tests revealed readings of around 0.11%, over the legal limit of 0.08%.
S was taken into custody at FHP Troop E headquarters on charges of DUI manslaughter and reckless vehicular homicide Friday.
As of Monday morning, she was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
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Source: local10
