‘I know what I am doing’: Friends begged driver doing 156 mph to slow down before a deadly collision led to passenger being ‘split in half,’ police said

A Florida antheral has been charged with vehicular homicide aft constabulary said helium crashed into different car portion driving 156 mph.

James Case, 20, was driving  his Audi S5 aft midnight connected Jan. 25 with 3 different passengers, according to an arrest warrant filed successful Broward County. The papers stated that portion Case was driving, 1 of his passengers told him to dilatory down, to which Case reportedly responded, “I americium James, I cognize what I americium doing.”

Another rider had posted a video from wrong the car to societal media that featured a presumption of the dashboard displaying Case’s utmost velocity — 156 mph successful a 45 mph zone. The rider who posted that video was killed erstwhile Case’s conveyance crashed into a Honda Accord.

According to the warrant, Case was not nether the influence, nor were immoderate of his passengers, whose names were each redacted successful the document. However, section CBS affiliate WPLG reported that Case had a fig of traffic-related violations going backmost to 2022 that were ne'er prosecuted.

The warrant stated that astatine astir 2:45 a.m. connected Jan. 25, Case attempted to alteration lanes “in an unsafe manner,” causing a rear-end collision with the Honda Accord successful beforehand of him. The Audi S5 past spun onto the shoulder, struck the curb, past rolled over, landing connected the roof.

The rider who was killed was not wearing a spot loop and was ejected from the vehicle, slamming into a adjacent gross earlier landing connected the ground. The alleged unfortunate was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. According to the warrant, the operator of the Honda Accord told constabulary that erstwhile she got retired of her car and saw “a assemblage connected the crushed divided successful half,” she returned to her vehicle.

Case and 5 others progressive successful the clang were brought to the infirmary to beryllium treated for their injuries.

The rider who had told Case to dilatory down told constabulary that Case “usually drives astatine a precocious complaint of velocity erstwhile they are successful the car together.”

Case was charged with six felonies and 3 misdemeanors, including 1 number of vehicular homicide and 5 counts of reckless driving with injury. A magistrate justice acceptable his bail astatine $325,000 and ordered that helium crook implicit his passport, refrain from driving, and taxable to GPS monitoring arsenic portion of his bail conditions.

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