MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Police arrested a Miami Gardens woman Monday for fleeing the scene of a fatal crash, authorities said.
According to her arrest report, Shyteria Clarke, 26, was driving northbound on Northwest 47th Avenue near 188th Street and hit a person trying to cross the road on April 5.
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Clarke immediately took off without stopping to help the victim, the arrest report said.
According to Miami Gardens police, the car was followed by a witness who called 911 and gave them a description of the car, as well as its tag number.
The victim, who wasn’t identified in the arrest report, was pronounced dead at the scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
Authorities later learned that the car had been towed the next day because it caught fire.
According to the report, on April 11, a man told Miami Gardens police that he was driving the car the day it caught fire. He said smoke came out of the front of the car and very quickly thereafter, the car was “engulfed in flames,” the arrest report stated.
Police said they asked him if he drove the car the night before and he said that he did not and that Clarke also drives the car, making it possible that she was driving the night of the accident.
A records check showed that Clarke does not have a valid driver’s license, authorities said.
According to the report, police spoke with Clarke on April 12, who told them that she was with the man the day of the fire. Police asked where she was the night of the accident, prompting Clarke to ask for a lawyer, authorities said.
According to the report, the man driving the car the day it caught fire told police on April 18 that he was in the car, sitting in the passenger’s seat when the accident happened. It states he had been drinking and asked Clarke to drive the car.
The man told police that he felt a “bump” and thought Clarke had hit the curb, not a person, police said.
He agreed on Monday to conduct a controlled video and audio call with Clarke, according to the arrest report. During the exchange, he confronted Clarke about the crash, exposing her as the driver at the time of the crash as well as proving that she knew that she had hit and killed the victim, authorities said.
Clarke never denied the allegations and stated that there was “nothing else” she wanted to talk to the police about, the arrest report said.
Police then got a warrant which revealed that both the man and Clarke’s cellphones were at the scene of the crash, authorities said.
Police contacted Clarke and she agreed to turn herself in, according to the arrest report.
She faces one count of leaving the scene of a crash involving death.
As of Tuesday, Clarke was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center where her bond had yet to be set.