Rachel Lodice was arraigned on manslaughter and other charges for the April 2024 crash at Hicksville Road and Sunrise Highway that killed Cynthia Mitchell.
Police said that after the crash, the suspect jumped into a public safety officer's car and took off. Police found the 21-year-old a short time later — wearing a town official’s jacket and eating the official's sandwich.A 21-year-old Georgia woman visiting family on Long Island was indicted for a crash on Sunrise Highway that killed a 64-year old-woman who had been out shopping with a friend.
“This is a very traumatic thing for us, so we’re just trying our best to get through it,” said Mitchell’s husband, Theodore. “I don’t have much to say but we just want to see justice done for my wife.” “The defendant was swerving in and out of traffic. She was screaming down Hicksville Road into oncoming traffic. She blew threw a red light,” said Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly.When she ran the light at Hicksville Road and Sunrise Highway, she slammed into the side of Mitchell’s car, killing her, police said.Mitchell’s best friend Melinda Ward was also in the car, but survived. She said she has not been the same since the wreck.
“There is not a level that we can measure of marijuana like we can measure alcohol, so we can just say that there was marijuana in her system,” said DA Donnelly. “The impairment, along with the details of the accident and the testimony of the responding officer will play into the case.”
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