DAVIE, Fla. — A woman was driving drunk when she ran a red light and ended up T-boned by an SUV driven by an off-duty cop in Davie, killing her front-seat passenger, according to police.
Authorities arrested Shelvinia Wright, 50, of West Park, on Monday in connection with the Sept. 15, 2024 crash.
Investigators said Wright, then 49, was driving her Kia Optima at University Drive and State Road 84 at around 2 a.m. when she entered the intersection in front of an off-duty officer with the former Miami-Dade Police Department, driving a Chevrolet Tahoe.
The officer had a green light, police said, and T-boned the Kia on the passenger’s side. Davie Fire Rescue personnel would pronounce Wright’s front-seat passenger, whose name was redacted from the report, dead at the scene about 40 minutes after the crash.
Authorities said that after the crash, the off-duty officer asked Wright whether she had been drinking and “she replied that she had.”
According to an arrest report, Wright asked the cop for help getting her car onto the sidewalk ― which it was already on.
Police said Wright admitted to fire rescue personnel that she “had some drinks” that night.
Authorities said results from a blood test taken more than two hours after the crash showed Wright’s blood alcohol content at 0.14%, nearly twice the legal limit.
An hour later, her BAC was still over the legal limit, at 0.11%, authorities said. Investigators concluded that her BAC was likely even higher than 0.14% at the time of the wreck.
Wright, arrested on Monday, was booked into the Broward County jail on DUI manslaughter and other charges.
As of Tuesday afternoon, she remained there on a $135,000 bond. If she bonds out, she’s subject to a host of conditions, including surrendering her passport, not driving, not leaving Broward County and submitting to GPS monitoring and random drug and alcohol testing twice per week.
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