The hit-and-run driver who killed a 76-year-old pedestrian on the south side this week drove past the stage while the police investigated the crash and she had part of the victim’s hair in her broken windshield, said a Chicago police report.
Officers on Patrol came up on the victim around 9.23 pm on Tuesday in the traffic strips in the vicinity of 70th and Western Avenue. Witnesses told them that they saw a fast -moving silver vehicle stuck the man while he traveled to the north according to the report. The driver continued.
About 30 minutes later, officers in the crash scene saw a silver Hyundai Santa Fe travel past them with a heavily damaged front -end and a “big crack” in the windshield, the report said.
Police officers tried to stop the car, but the driver took “an unusual amount of time to stop,” their report said. As soon as the driver stopped, the police would have found a “piece of her” similar to the victim who is embedded in the windshield. They said they had also noticed Svedka Vodka bottles on the passenger seat and under the driver’s seat, the report said.
Arresting officers said that the driver, 29-year-old Nyamca Tolefree, asked “several times” to lean on their squadron car so that she could stay upright. Their report said that they could “smell a heavy scent of alcoholic drinks” on her breath and body and said that she exhibited “unclear, thick tongue and stuttered speech”.
Tolefree urinated in itself while driving to the hospital in the backseat of a squadron car, said CPD’s arrest report. She refused austerity tests and made “multiple expressions” about involvement in a crash while driving, according to the report.
In the end, however, public prosecutors did not charge her with Dui.
However, she is responsible for not reporting a fatal accident. Cops called her for transporting alcohol as a driver, not exercising the necessary care and not reducing the speed.
Judge Luciano Panici, Jr., ordered her detained trial.
