PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – A teenager is facing two vehicular homicide charges in connection with a Valentine’s Day crash in Pembroke Pines that left a senior couple dead, police announced Thursday.
Pembroke Pines police said Albert Oswaldo Yanez Quintana, 17, of Sunrise, was “showing his friends how fast his new car was” just after 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 14 when he T-boned another car in his Dodge Charger on Dykes Road near Northwest 12th Street.
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According to an arrest report, a senior couple was in the Ford Fusion and trying to make a left when the Charger split the sedan in two.
One of them, Patricia Fajardro De Cardona, was ejected in the crash and pronounced dead. Her husband, Hugo Cardona Valencia, died a little more than a week after the crash,
Three of Yanez Quintana’s friends were with him in the Dodge during the crash, the report states.
One of them told officers Yanez Quintana “does not know how to drive” and “should be ‘locked up,’” the report states.
Police said the friend told investigators that he was going “70 to 80 mph,” well above the 45 mph speed limit on Dykes Road.
The report states that investigators determined that if Yanez Quintana had been driving the speed limit, the victims would have had nearly three more seconds to cross the intersection and the wreck “would not have occurred.”
Besides the vehicular homicide charges, Yanez Quintana faces a charge of reckless driving.
Editor’s note: The original version of this story misstated that one person died in the crash. Two people died. It has since been corrected.