TAMPA, FL – A 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were arrested after causing a collision that claimed the life of a woman in her 60s last Monday, June 3rd.
ABC Action News said that before 10:30 a.m. on Dale Mabry Highway, the 22-year-old man, driving a 2011 BMW, was racing the 19-year-old man, operating a black Camaro. Both men were going at a high rate, which then led the BMW driver — Andy Moya Robaina — to lose control of his car and then crash into a Nissan Versa.
The woman in her 6os was a Nissan passenger. The Nissan driver was a man in his early 70s who was taken to a local hospital for unspecified wounds.
Officers arrested Robaina first on June 3rd and were “charged with vehicular homicide and unlawful racing on a highway.”
Police said Hernadez fled the scene on June 3rd and was located on Monday, June 10th. They arrested him, apprehended his vehicle, and took him to Orient Road Jail.
Hernandez was also “charged with vehicular homicide, unlawful racing on a highway, and reckless driving with serious bodily injury. In addition, he was charged with leaving the scene of a crash that resulted in death.
Police have not released the woman’s name or provided an update on the Nissan driver’s physical condition.
Updates will be provided as our newsroom learns more.
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