NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – A woman suspected of critically injuring a scooter rider on the Broad Causeway Bridge in Bay Harbor Islands told North Miami police that she planned on going back to the scene.
Angela Nicole Pico, 31, of North Miami Beach, turned herself in at the Miami-Dade Police Department headquarters in Doral on Monday evening on a hit-and-run charge in connection with the nighttime crash on Oct. 19 and appeared in court Tuesday morning.
A Miami-Dade police 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.”
The newly-obtained body camera video shows Pico, parked at the Walgreens at 12995 Biscayne Blvd., claiming that she wanted to go back to the scene. Officers said they spotted her after putting out a be-on-the-lookout notice.
“I may seem a little unhinged, but I’m a very emotional person,” Pico is heard saying. “I just didn’t want to go by myself.”
Pico remained in her car as Bay Harbor Islands police arrived.
“She stated that she thinks she hit a scooter back there, but she was on the phone with her fiance,” a North Miami police officer says in the video.
Pico was released from the Miami-Dade jail on a $5,000 bond. Her attorney told Local 10 News that Pico has been in contact with law enforcement since the crash and that, to his knowledge, the victim survived.