BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, Fla. – Police arrested a woman they said hit a man riding a scooter on the Broad Causeway Bridge in Bay Harbor Islands in mid-October and kept on driving, leaving the victim lying in the road injured.
Angela Nicole Pico, 31, of North Miami Beach, turned herself in at the Miami-Dade Police Department headquarters in Doral on Monday evening and appeared in court Tuesday morning. She’s facing a charge of leaving the scene of a crash causing serious bodily injury.
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According to police, the crash happened just after 10:15 p.m. on Oct. 19.
An MDPD arrest report states that the victim was riding his electric scooter west in the shared bike lane when Pico, driving a Kia Sportage, struck him from behind, “vaulting him violently onto the roadway and raised concrete curb.”
Pico, police said, “fled the area without providing aid to the victim or calling 911 to report the crash.”
Authorities said the man had to be airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center and “remained in a life-threatening, critical condition.”
They said after putting out a be-on-the-lookout notice for her vehicle, North Miami police officers located Pico in a Walgreens parking lot at 12995 Biscayne Blvd. soon after the crash.
Pico “provided an audio and video recorded confession,” the report states.
Pico donned an anti-suicide vest as she appeared in court Tuesday morning. While a Miami-Dade prosecutor asked that she be held on a $25,000 bond, her attorney, Richard Cooper, asked for a $5,000 bond, arguing that Pico has been in constant contact with law enforcement since the crash.
Judge Mindy Glazer agreed with Cooper’s request.
“It’s hard to see people on that bridge at night,” Glazer said. “A $5,000 bond is sufficient to ensure her appearance.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, Pico was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.