PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – A teenager is facing a vehicular homicide charge in connection with a Valentine’s Day crash in Pembroke Pines that left a woman dead, police announced Thursday.
Pembroke Pines police said Albert Oswaldo Yanez Quintana, 17, of Sunrise, was “showing his friends how fast his new car was” just after 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 14 when he T-boned another car in his Dodge Charger on Dykes Road near Northwest 12th Street.
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According to an arrest report, two seniors were in the Ford Fusion and trying to make a left when the Charger split the sedan in two.
One of them, identified as Patricia Fajardro De Cardona, was ejected in the crash and pronounced dead.
Three of Yanez Quintana’s friends were with him in the Dodge during the crash, the report states.
One of them told officers Yanez Quintana “does not know how to drive” and “should be ‘locked up,’” the report states.
Police said the friend told investigators that he was going “70 to 80 mph,” well above the 45 mph speed limit on Dykes Road.
The report states that investigators determined that if Yanez Quintana had been driving the speed limit, the victims would have had nearly three more seconds to cross the intersection and the wreck “would not have occurred.”
Besides a charge of vehicular homicide, Yanez Quintana faces a charge of reckless driving.
His mugshot was not immediately available as of Thursday evening.