An accused driver who got himself drunk on his birthday says he could barely see a thing before he killed a 19-year-old college student in Miami.
24-year-old Nicholas Robinson ran into international University student Gabriela Flores’ parked Jeep so hard at 100 mph that it left her flying into the air.
When police found Robinson, he was so drunk on the deadly Friday morning wreck that he was “completely unaware” of what had happened and how he had taken a life, as per a Miami Beach police report reviewed by WPLG-TV News.
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Robinson allegedly told police: “Why are you stopping me?”. “It’s my birthday, and did you get the other car?”
Officers revealed that the crash killed El Salvador’s Flores, who was pronounced dead near her mangled Jeep.
Robinson was initially charged with drunk driving and reckless driving, yet the charges were taken a notch higher to vehicular manslaughter on Tuesday during a court appearance, as per reports.
“We’re here because he’s driving at a high rate of speed, I guess shortly after midnight on February 21st and smashes into a car going west on Macarthur Causeway,” Miami-Dade County Judge Mindy Glazer said, WPLG reported.
“They say he was driving 100 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour zone, he had slurred speech, odor of alcoholic beverage.”
“In fact, he didn’t even know he hit another car,” the judge said. “He said ‘did you get the other car?’ He struck the vehicle, the victim was ejected and he said he’s out celebrating his birthday. So I guess it was his birthday and the victim’s death day.”
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Court records indicate that the accused drunk driver is being held on $100,000 bail at the Miami-Dade jail, dismayed and baffled as to how his birthday has likely ruined his life.
