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Baitball Blogger

(46,735 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2013, 11:56 PM Dec 2013

Curious hit and run developing in Central Florida.

Mercedes found after hit-and-run crash kills teen girl, injures brother

The owner of a Mercedes that slammed into and killed a teen girl and critically injured her brother as they rode a bicycle across State Road 50 came forward Friday hours after the hit-and-run crash in east Orange County.

But the identity of the driver who struck 17-year-old Melanie Luque and 18-year-old Travis Luque Exposito has not been determined.

The owner of the 2008 black Mercedes showed up with an attorney at the Florida Highway Patrol's local headquarters in Orlando

She told officials where to find the vehicle, according to FHP Sgt. Kim Montes.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-one-killed-one-hurt-hit-and-run-colonial-20131206,0,7263545.story

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Curious hit and run developing in Central Florida. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Dec 2013 OP
Can I take a guess? Electric Monk Dec 2013 #1
Is that Jeb Bush's crackhead daughter, Noelle? TheDebbieDee Dec 2013 #5
Best I remember, yes madokie Dec 2013 #8
They took Zimmerman's guns away.... NightWatcher Dec 2013 #2
That's so sad.. damn crashes. Cha Dec 2013 #3
It is a curious situation all around. Baitball Blogger Dec 2013 #4
Dunno, the owner knew where the car was Warpy Dec 2013 #6
Yeah, or the driver could have told the owner where it was.. Cha Dec 2013 #7

Cha

(297,304 posts)
3. That's so sad.. damn crashes.
Sat Dec 7, 2013, 12:20 AM
Dec 2013

It is curious.. evidently the owner is not the driver. And, why were those poor kids out bike riding at 3:30am.. and were there lights on their bike?

Warpy

(111,274 posts)
6. Dunno, the owner knew where the car was
Sat Dec 7, 2013, 03:13 AM
Dec 2013

which suggests she put it there.

I think there are few details at present because the cops are trying to decide whether or not the driver was blotto.

I can think of no other reason for leaving the scene of an accident that caved in half the windshield. You might miss a parking lot tap but you've got to be shitfaced to miss that.

Cha

(297,304 posts)
7. Yeah, or the driver could have told the owner where it was..
Sat Dec 7, 2013, 03:22 AM
Dec 2013

I was thinking maybe a kid of her's. But, who knows.. wouldn't mind hearing more when it comes out.

They left the scene but finally notifying the authorities. So there's that.

Again, so sad for Melanie Luque and Travis Luque Exposito and their loved ones.

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