HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) - Police on Monday arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver, accused of fatally striking two elderly pedestrians in Hialeah.
Susej Calcines, 47, was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of leaving the scene of a crash.
According to Hialeah Police, units around 7 p.m. responded to the scene of the crash in the area of East Eighth Avenue near 48th Street, Sunday.
Investigators said Calcines was driving her black Mercedes SUV, traveling southbound, when she struck and killed both victims as they were crossing the street.
Police said the motorist kept driving and fled the scene.
The elderly couple were pronounced dead at the scene.
The victims’ daughter, Maria, spoke to 7News and said that she always feared that something like this would happen.
“They were my whole life,” Maria said. “Two elderly people who everyone loved. They were walking to the corner store to play the lotto like they always did.”
She identified her parents as 87-year-old Julio Hernandez and 84-year-old Manuela Hernandez.
Speaking through tears, Maria said Calcines had time to stop and help.
“I don’t understand how people can do that,” she said. “Accidents happen, I know, but have a conscience, my God. How can you do that? If you hit someone, stop and help them or ask for help because you could have saved them. You left them like an animal there. Thrown like trash.
After the accident, police found Calcines at her home and arrested her.
“We were able to locate that vehicle at an apartment complex in Northwest Miami-Dade. We were able to identify the driver. We were able to take her into custody, and transport her here where she made some declarations that she was the woman that was driving the vehicle,” said Hialeah Police Officer Eddie Rodriguez.
7News passed by Calcines’ home on Monday afternoon but nobody answered.
Now Maria’s husband, Jorge Luis, said they’re just glad Calcines was caught.
“The pain is immense but at least we have the tranquility that the guilty one, who didn’t stay on the scene, has been arrested,” he said.
Police said that Calcines has no recollection of the crash and she suffers from an undisclosed medical condition. She also has a clean driving record and this was the first crash she had been involved in.
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